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Renewing Your Mind

Art for Whose Sake?

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Whether we gather in a simple room or an ornate sanctuary, art plays a role in our worship. Today, R.C. Sproul exhorts Christians to pursue art in the life of the church that conveys the true, the good, and the beautiful.

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0:00.0

Before we get started today, I wanted to encourage you to download the new Ligonier app.

0:05.8

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0:10.4

other podcasts like Things Unseen.

0:13.2

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0:17.3

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0:20.0

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0:24.7

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0:30.8

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0:36.1

Simply search for Ligonier in your favorite app store, and if you already have the app,

0:40.0

consider encouraging a friend to download it, as it's a great way to introduce them to RC Sprull

0:45.8

and the teaching of Ligonier Ministries.

0:48.0

Now here's today's edition of Renewing Your Mind.

0:51.4

It's not whether we're going to have art or not have art.

0:53.8

It's whether the art that we have is good art or bad art.

0:57.1

Whether it's symphony or whether it's cacophony.

1:00.2

Whether it's order and cosmos or disorder and chaos.

1:05.8

That's the question.

1:12.7

Some of us like art, and others don't prefer it.

1:16.8

I can remember seeing my first Rembrandt and being stopped in my track, simply staring at the painting.

1:23.7

But even if we try and avoid art, as RC Sprull will explain today,

1:28.0

every form is an art form, and every art form communicates something.

1:32.9

So it can't be avoided whether in a studio, a museum, or even a church building.

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