Do Christians Have A Special Talent For Building And Creating

[Space_Karen]

God is sometimes referred to as the Creator.

Architect, designer and engineer of the universe and all living things in it.

When Jesus walked the earth. His chosen path was also that of a builder and creator. His profession being a carpenter.

To follow in the footsteps of the Father and the Son.

Perhaps it is well for christians to embark upon paths to become builders, growers, healers. 

Even if only as DIY hobbies. It is possible walking a creative path brings us closer to God.

My forum avatar being the ceiling of a church painted by Michaelangelo.

I look at it and think this is the type of beauty and wonder christians can create if they put their hearts and minds to it.

And perhaps this is one purpose God intended for us as His followers.

A purpose that we are specially suited to fulfill, if we only take a step in that direction.

[Starise]

It seems to me many people have gifts to do different things, both believers and non believers. The evil fallen angels still used their gifts, just for opposite ends. They say Hitler was a pretty good orator..

Christians and the good angels are the only ones I am aware of who can use whatever gifts they have for the true purposes they were intended for.

This is where pinning down what that looks like is difficult for me. Modern Christian worship music is a rather recent development. Before that we had other things. The stacking and organization of abilities seems to be one way of magnifying the effects intended to glorify the Lord.

In other words at a church we have people working sound and people working streaming, musicians all attempting to work as a team to maximum effect. This is even more pronounced in a Christian music concert where there are often many sound technicians, musicians, light technicians, video technicians etc. making it happen.

I see a similar thing with collaborations that worked well. I haven't had much luck in that area although I have had a few collaborations. Musicians, artists , lyricists. It seems to me everyone is out to make a name for themselves and like to be lone artists, whether it be video work , music work or whatever it is. I am not a lone creator by choice, but after awhile I grew tired of making suggestions to others who dismissed my requests. I can't even get one of our worship leaders, who lives not a mile down the road from me, to come over some afternoon and work though parts to songs, and I have suggested to video content creators that I could help with music, to the same dismal results. When I get asked to do anything, it seems to be mostly about what I want YOU to do to make ME sound better. No US or doing it for the Lord involved there.

We have one other violinist at my church who was there prior to me attending at that church. I have waited for an invitation to play a duet. It's been two years and looks like I'll be waiting for a very long time. So I guess I just take lessons for the fun of it. No demand to play at my local church....although if I decided to get back into playing at bars again, there would be a chair for me there.

So yes, we have a lot of creative Christians. All mostly in little bubbles.I don't see them as any more or less creative than the unsaved artists. MONEY and FAME drive the worlds non believer creatives, and sad to say with most artists I encounter today, it's about their agenda. I want to do this for ME seems to be the attitude. This is why we have like 5 million artists online all flying solo.

Edited October 16, 2022 by Starise

[missmuffet]

Some Christians my be creative but that is not one of my talents. 

[other one]

I would say that the Jewish people would fit that bill more than Christians.   And have for hundreds of years.

[Starise]

How so?