Beauty and Brokenness

Art focuses our attention on the beautiful or on the brokenness in this world.  Both are launching points for gospel ministry conversations.

Beauty

• God’s design for the world, perfect and wonderful. Beauty points to God’s goodness and is a source of joy.

• Of Creation – Ps 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaim his handiwork."  –The beauty around us is a reflection of God’s glory. 

• Spiritual – Ps 27:4 "One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in his temple.”  We can find a source of joy and fulfillment when contemplating the beautiful.

Brokenness

• Distress; spiritual, emotional, or physical. The result of sin.

• Impossible to truly fix apart from God.

 Art that is beautiful as well as art that wrestles with brokenness are opportunities for the gospel.