Hope Cafe celebrates the importance Christian Art and Artists have played in communicating the Gospel through the ages. The Cafe embraces and showcases Christian Art through a variety of mediums and multiple artistic disciplines. We encourage artists to contact our Pastor of Creative Arts, Eric Beavers at eric@hopecaferaleigh.com, to submit your expression of faith for sale by consignment or display at the Hope Cafe.
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You may have noticed that the walls of Hope Cafe are always filled with an ever-changing variety of art. And, you may have wondered to yourself why we put so much emphasis on the arts…..well, let us explain. From the perspective of a Christian world view the answer is found in how we are created. Since we are made in God’s image that must include the glorious concept that we too are creative. After creating man, God told him to subdue the earth and rule over it. Adam was to cultivate and keep the garden (Gen. 2:15) which was described by God as “very good” (Gen. 1:31). The implication of this is very important. God, the Creator, a lover of the beauty in His created world, invited Adam, one of His creatures, to share in the process of “creation” with Him. He has permitted humans to take the elements of His cosmos and create new arrangements with them. Perhaps this explains the reason why creating anything is so fulfilling to us. We can express a drive within us which allows us to do something all humans uniquely share with their Creator.
God has thus placed before the human race a banquet table rich with aesthetic delicacies. He has supplied the basic ingredients, inviting those made in His image to exercise their creative capacities to the fullest extent possible. We are privileged as no other creature to make and enjoy art.
