[More from Read the Bible for a Change]
As we imagine the world really being as the Bible describes it we artistically "render" the world around us, thinking, imagining, feeling, and acting in ways that cooperate, that fit with, the values of this invisible but very real kingdom of God. Francis Schaeffer fully understood this perspective:
No work of art is more important that the Christian's own life, and every Christian is called upon to be an artist in this sense. He may have no gift of writing, no gift of composing or singing, but each man has the gift of creativity in terms of the way he lives his life. In this sense, the Christian life is to be an art work. The Christian life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
Responding to the Bible is a matter, then, of awakening our imaginations to living as if we are natives of a different world of thinking.
-Lubeck, p.84
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Love it. Thank you
I really like this one :)
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