Creative Concept Community

Is there a word called discreative? I guess not, because when I typed it Microsoft put that little squiggly red line under the word. I know there is an uncreative, that’s when something doesn’t have the capacity to be creative, but discreative? I just make up words when I can’t find the ones I’m looking for, sorry, discreative is when something works against creativity. Let’s take religion for example. When you perform something religiously, you have to perform it discreatively.

When a creative rises up in the midst of religion he or she is always looked at with suspicion. It is so easy for religious people to mistake creativity with rebellion. Creatives make some people very nervous, I think, because we have such a hard time staying within “the box.”

Creatives don’t think in boxes, and if you hand them one you are very likely to get it back with holes punched in it and sketches drawn on the outside of it with what they think the box should be changed into.

The reality, however, is that without the creatives in the church, it would become a stale and lifeless drudgery. The church needs to find these individuals and empower them, with great leaders guiding them, to breathe fresh life and vitality into the Body. What has happened instead is that we work on making every one the same by mistaking unity with standardization. The tragedy of the standard is that we have to pull everything to the middle, to the average, with very little room for error or success.

My friend Dan preached a message about the currency of God’s kingdom being ideas and I have to whole-heartedly agree with him. Some of the people in your local congregation, the weird ones, the ones that don’t seem to fit, may be your greatest asset, if you can allow them to stay outside of the box and be who God made them to be.

The focus of this group is to help foster creativity. We will be discussing the creative process.