TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bauer,Michael J.
TI  - Arts ministry: nurturing the creative life of God's people 
T2  - The Calvin Institute of Christian worship liturgical studies series
SN  - 9780802869289
AV  - BR115.A8 B38 2013
U1  - 253/.7 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company
KW  - Christianity and the arts
KW  - Church work
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-327); An introduction to arts ministry -- Skepticism about arts ministry -- Arts ministry and God -- Arts ministry and human formation -- Arts ministry and the world -- Arts ministry and human creativity -- Arts ministry and worship -- Toward a theology of arts ministry -- The practice of arts ministry
N2  - First United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, gives concerts to raise money for local service organizations. Trinity Lutheran Church in Mission, Kansas, has been sponsoring a religious art show for more than twenty-five years. Fellowship Lutheran Church runs a Christian arts camp for young people every summer. These are just three of the eighteen case studies of practicing arts ministries in this book, in which Michael Bauer encourages the nurture and support of all the creative gifts of God's people. Bauer lays a solid foundation for arts ministry, grounding it in the historic Christian tradition and urging churches to expand their engagement with the creative arts -- "to live and worship in full color," as he puts it. A concluding chapter clearly lays out how to develop an arts ministry, helping readers to take these ideas from theory to practice, to embrace and celebrate the continuing creative activity of God in the church
ER  -