Leonard Sweet recently did a video with The Work of the People. Len laments the fact that our churches has been known to whack down right-brained, creative people — the artists. Fittingly, the video is entitled Bastions of Boredom. Is there anything we can learn from this? Can we move to more embracing ways of being the Church in this world?
What does this opinion have to teach those who are not part of the church, but still believe in Christ? How does this re-orient their modes of being in the world?
Enjoy the video! This is just a preview — full-length videos can be downloaded from the TWOTP website. Feel free to leave your thoughts as a comment below. Let’s start a discussion…
I’ve met Len in person on more than one occasion. He’s the same guy in person that you’d meet in his books, or on the stages he teaches from. A quality that you don’t always find in leaders, especially those of this magnitude…
About Leonard Sweet: Author of more than two hundred articles, over twelve hundred published sermons, and dozens of books, Len is the primary contributor (along with his wife Karen Elizabeth Rennie) to the web-based preaching resource, sermons.com. For nine years he and his wife wrote Homiletics, which became under their watch the premier preaching resource in North America.
Len is increasingly being asked to lecture around the world, and has spoken in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, England, Wales, South Africa, South Korea, Iceland, Scotland, and most recently, China, Indonesia, and Latvia.
The Work of the People is a community of artists who create visual media for the church to re-orient God’s people around Jesus’ good news and mission to make all things new. They are a community of artists, storytellers, filmmakers, poets and theologians. Their work is to tell the story we share and to ask poignant questions through film, literature, art and music. They confess that we are created in the image of God and fulfill our calling by creating and recreating to the glory of God.
