Terra Nova
It’s been a crazy week and I still haven’t had time since getting home on Monay afternoon to post about my weekend in the mountains with Mosaic. It was an amazing weekend and I’ll post a couple of things this week. Here’s a few highlights from the week:
- Tons of fun hangin with a whole lot of creative people all weekend long. Everyone was awesome! Really friendly and great attitudes.
- Great staff, too. Loved getting to know them and learn from them.
- During the week we broke up into teams based on disciplines and created during the time there. I was grouped up with a few others to write a song. That’s a stretching experience for me and I look forward to sharing what we cme up with later this week.
- Getting a chance to experience and learn some new arts. One of the sessions the first day we were encouraged to try something new in a session where it was being taught. Here’s a pic of Matt Schatz (DeeJay Jigowatt) scratchin and mixin on the turntables:
The most impactful part of the weekend for all of us was hashing through the idea of creating prophetic art. 1 Corinthians 14 says that when people prophecy, it will cause non-believers to fall down and say "Surely God is in this place!" Through our own convictions, are our lives and our art causing others to say "Truly God is in this place"? What does it look like to use art in expressing ourselves to really change people and make a difference in their lives?
This was such a great reminder and a great focus for why we do what we do. In the art I’ve experienced in our community as well as in "secular" art (whatever that means I know I’ve experienced prophetic art that really moves me and others as well as "non-prophetic art." I’ve experienced both of those in both settings. What was the last piece of art that you saw that you would consider "prophetic?" Perhaps a film, a painting, a play, or a song. What does it practically look like to be prophetic in our artforms? Questions to continue to ponder. Any thoughts?
