![]() If you would like to support the work of Redeemer in NYC, please use the button below to make a gift. Thank you for subscribing to the Redeemer Report. Of course, it can separate and divide but it can also bring together. And finally, art is public it carries a social component. For the Christian, art can help communicate the depth and meaning of transformation, glory, hope, and redemption. Through Christ, art acquires import other than self-expression. We come together each week in a diverse environment for those who simply want. Just as God’s glory was clearly present on Moses’ face we must believe, if God so chooses, that his glory can be seen through our art. Just simple faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Christian artists must also believe that God can use art in ways one never expected or can ever explain. Through the ministry of the Spirit, the willing artist exposes his or her time with God. Moses covered the evidence of time spent with God. We must believe that God is somehow involved. Making art is a grace act-what we receive and generate is all gift. As we shape and change our creations we grow in our understanding of how the Spirit forms and transforms. Artists not only converse with their materials and mediums, but also grapple with God. Like prayer, art making can be dialogical. What does this mean for artists? To start with, artists can invite the Spirit’ transformational power into their creative process. ![]() And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3: 17,18 Following the reconciliation that Christ’s death brought between God and his people, however, Paul tells us that we no longer need to veil the glory of God’s transformation in our lives. In the Old Testament Moses had to veil his face to hide the glory that emanated from him after being in the presence of God. Redeemer’s fall art exhibi tion, entitled Unveiled Faces, enables artists to share their work and give the art patron who attends Redeemer the occasion to support the artists and the RENEW campaign (half of the proceeds of what is sold benefit Redeemer’s move to four congregations.) Please join us in celebrating Unveiled Faces at the artists’ reception on Friday, October 22 from 6:30PM to 9:30PM at the Redeemer Offices. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is Spirit.” – 2 Corinthians 3: 17,18 It’s an amazing journey of love, identity, and freedom in Christ.“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Want more from Tricia Gunn? Check out excerpts from the Unveiling Jesus 20-part series! Unveiling Jesus, by Tricia Gunn, is a verse by verse study of the pure gospel of grace. “Such WERE some of you but you WERE WASHED, but you WERE SANCTIFIED, but you WERE JUSTIFIED in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:11, NASB) 1 He said to them “Don’t you know that the unrighteous won’t inherit the kingdom of God?” In other words, “Why are you acting like them?!” He then gave them a long list of those whose identity is in their behavior and not in Christ – the unrighteous. In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul exhorted the Corinthians and rebuked them for behaving like the unrighteous. If a believer is struggling with sin, the best thing we can do is remind him of who he is in Christ. If somebody wants to talk about Jesus, let’s talk all night! If someone wants to theorize about sin, end of discussion. We are not required to get into endless discourse on all of the nuances of sin. It would behoove all of us if we would refuse to be drawn into discussions about sin and only discuss the remedy. Whatever the sin is, the answer is to turn our focus OFF of it and ONTO Jesus. ![]() I unveiled Jesus to him and watched his hope return. I told him that he was righteous before the Father. He had been so desperate to hear those words! The enemy had tormented him for years with the lie that he was headed for hell. I sensed that the Holy Spirit’s heart was broken, too, and then I heard a strong word: “Tell him he isn’t going to hell.” I repeated that sentence just as I heard it, and the young man broke down and bawled. ![]() My heart was broken as he described the details. After we discussed his life as a Christian, he began to share with me the torment that he was under. After we had gotten to know each other, I asked him that simple question, and he answered that he knew that Jesus was his Savior and had died for him. As I was driving up to the coffee shop where we were meeting, I asked the Lord what He wanted me to say, and He only gave me one thing: ask the young man whether he believed that he was saved. Some time ago a young man who was struggling with homosexuality reached out to me. ![]()
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