Community Arts for God's Purposes: How to Create Local Artistry Together

People communicate by speaking words in over seven thousand languages around the world. They also sing dance paint preach dramatize and design communication that enlivens heart soul mind and strength. God gave every community unique gifts of artistic expression to enable its members to proclaim the Truth and to bring healing hope and joy to others in the fallen world in which we live.Community Arts for Gods Purposes highlights the CLAT (Creating Local Arts Together) method a seven-step process that inspires artistic creativity and collaboration with local musicians dancers storytellers actors and visual artists. In this manual the arts are treated as special kinds of communication systems connected to specific times places and social contexts. As local communities use the creative gifts developed in their particular culture to worship God and extend his kingdom a beautiful example of the Lords complex artistry emerges.This book helps communities draw on examples and insights from over two thousand years of church history to understand and improve the present. It motivates people by painting a vivid picture of a better future: the kingdom of Heaven. Contributors also apply expertise from multiple academic disciplines such as ethnomusicology performance studies anthropology biblical studies and missiology.Experiment with this manual. Adapt it to your setting. Let it be an aid in creating astounding bits of artistry on earth that youll recognize in Heaven.