Outreach and the Artist: Sharing the Gospel with the Arts

Publisher's Description

Whether you are an artist whose talents are an untapped source of energy for your church or a ministry leader wanting to involve artists and the creative arts in your outreach efforts, Outreach and the Artist will renew your vision. Musician and biblical scholar Con Campbell offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical tips for evangelism with, through, and to the arts:

• Evangelism with the Arts. While the abilities of Christian artists may serve the church internally, artists within the church usually have enormous untapped potential for outreach.
• Evangelism through the Arts. People’s natural love for various artistic mediums provides a connection-point to exploring life’s big questions with unbelievers in non-threatening and engaging ways.
• Evangelism to the Arts. Christian artists are uniquely positioned to make an impact in artistic networks, which often have no Christian witness or presence and tend to be shut off from conventional methods of outreach.

Spreading the gospel is a task worth every God-given resource we have, and artists and their creative gifts are no exception.

About the Authors

Con Campbell plays jazz, lectures in theology, and likes coffee. Since 2000, Con has combined his two passions of Jesus and jazz music by performing and speaking at jazz concerts for churches, university groups, schools, and festivals. He is author of several books including Keep Your Greek and Not Ashamed and has performed on several albums, including The Gospel According to Groove (with James Morrison and The Idea of North), Freedom in the Groove (Con Campbell Quartet), and Transit (Transit Jazz). From Sydney, Australia, Con now lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, Bronwyn, and their three children.