Spirit of Adam

Where is the creativity in the Church? I realize that this is a generalized question, and there are some that are very creative, but I am talking about the Church as a whole.

We serve the creative God. We are made to be in His image and likeness, so creativity is to flow from us as well. All too often, however, we (the church) simply rips off what the world is doing. We do need to speak to our society, but we need to innovative as well.

Where is the song that has never been sung? What painting has never been displayed on canvas? I speak more about this in a previous blog entry.

Briefly, I believe that the problem is that we don't know what to call what we do, so we don't "do" it. We feel that it must have a title or something easily recognizable to be considered "ministry" so we just allow thoughts to flow through our brain, never seeing the light of day as action.

In the garden after creation, Adam was given the job of naming the animals. They had never been named before, but he was naming what had been created out of nothing. I believe that God wants us to put those nameless things that are stuck bouncing around in our spirits into action, and then worry about naming them later, as well as stop worrying that another person cannot name it for us.

In other words, creation doesn't just make what is already created, but it creates something new. Then it works to figure out what it is called.

We need the spirit of a pre-sin Adam, in that we create the new, and then allow God to give it a name.