what if the church was obsessed with beauty

It isn’t easy to change a reputation. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter which study you choose to look at today, you’ll find the Church’s reputation in America isn’t great.

So what would it take to change that? Maybe it starts with the Church becoming obsessed with beauty.

Taken by the beauty of its own diversity.

Of course this would require a lot of sacrifice. Pet theologies would need to go. Narrow views of what a church service looks like would have to be gone. But after the dust clears, what if every church looked at every other church and saw beauty? Saw that different ways of worshipping and viewing God aren’t just the way things are, they are they way God designed them to be.

Captivated by the beauty in the world.

Could it be that the church’s job isn’t to bring God to a place, but to go to that place and point out what God is already doing? And if that’s so, maybe there is beauty woven in to every part of the Earth. And maybe the Church’s job is to love that beauty. To find that beauty. And to point that beauty out to everyone they can find.

Consumed with unleashing the beauty within every person.

Maybe the idea of Jesus in your heart has been so overused we forget the power of the metaphor. If the God of the universe – in all his infinite beauty – has come to reside inside of someone, it should be the church’s job to unleash that beauty from within those people. Can you picture the world bathed in the beauty of God as it overflows from his people?

What if the church was obsessed with beauty?