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The People of God Called Redeemer

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There’s a painting hanging in the parlor at church that captures my imagination.  I don’t know the story behind its creation, nor the artist responsible.  I assume it’s oil paint on a canvas.  It’s certainly been painted in the last 10 years as it depicts the addition that was built somewhere around 2005.  All that being said, there’s something about the painting that calls out to me beyond the explicit and the obvious.

It might be the Thomas Kincaid-like way the church building exudes light, not just from the windows but from the very stones themselves.  It might be the way the street glistens in the foreground, as though a spring thunderstorm had just past through.  But I suspect it’s something more than that.  There’s a creative impulse in it.  Something about the creator’s hand that belied simple 1 to 1 representation.  It seems clear to me that it was crafted with and in love.  Not merely a passing infatuation with a beautiful building or even a completed construction project.  No, it was as if the painting was a stand in for the community it represents and the love the artist has the people of God called Redeemer.


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