Creativity

This was our final week of classes for my first semster. I am going to enjoy a break from some of the assignments, but I am really going to miss all of the classes that I took this term. Howard Hendricks spent our last few sessions together teaching on something that he is passionate about -- creativity. There are many smart people at my school and the temptation can be to be so book smart that you forget about creativity. Prof Hendricks taught us that this would be a very sad mistake. Here are a couple of snippets from my notes:

"Creativity must become a lifestyle."

"Creativity infects the nature of your leadership -- the two are inseperable."

"Creative people continue to produce what non-creative people never try."

We were given a simple assignment to take the story from Acts 3:1-10 about Peter and John healing a lame man and produce a creative paraphrase. Prof Hendricks made our classroom a theater during our next meeting so that some people in the class could share their work. I rewrote the story from the point of view of a person in the crowd. I was amazed at what some of my classmates came up with. The class began with two of my friends (who had placed 130 blank butcher block paper sheets all over the building) instructing the rest of the class to go out and use markers to draw with our individual hurting / healing stories from God. This powerful experience just set the stage for a very creative and emotional rest of class. There were skits, poems, dramatic readings, and even a quilt. Below is a music video and picture from two of my favorites.



These two girls brought a blank canvas and played a four minute song by Big Daddy Weave about Jesus healing the lame, the blind, and wanting to heal us in our lives. They painted through the song. Initially the painting showed the hurt of the man. As the song progressed it showed the healing from a Savior. Powerful!!!



This is not necessarily the type of music that I listen to. But this video is great (and alot of fun) -- especially considering that they had 48 hours to do! It is a very creative way to reach people who enjoy this kind of music with the message of how Jesus heals.