Christian Art Today Should Be

Truth Demands Confrontation. It Must Be Loving Confrontation, But There Must Be Confrontation Nonetheless.

In Two Areas Above All Others The Christian Demonstration Of Love And Communication Stands Clear: In The Area Of The Christian Couple And Their Children; And In The Personal Relationships Of Christians In The Church. If There Is No Demonstration In These Two Places, On The Personal Level, The World Can Conclude That Orthodox Christian Doctrine Is Nothing But Dead, Cold Words.

Christians, Of All People, Should Not Be Destroyers. We Should Treat Nature With An Overwhelming Respect. We May Cut Down A Tree To Build A House, Or To Make A Fire To Keep The Family Warm. But We Should Not Cut Down The Tree Just To Cut Down The Tree. We May, If Necessary, Bark The Cork Tree In Order To Have The Use Of The Bark. But What We Should Not Do Is To Bark The Tree Simply For The Sake Of Doing So, And Let It Dry And Stand There A Dead Skeleton In The Wind. To Do So Is Not To Treat The Tree With Integrity.

We Must Not Only Be True. We Must Be Beautiful.

God Has Ordained The State As A Delegated Authority; It Is Not Autonomous. The State Is To Be An Agent Of Justice, To Restrain Evil By Punishing The Wrongdoer, And To Protect The Good In Society. When It Does The Reverse, It Has No Proper Authority. It Is Then A Usurped Authority And As Such It Becomes Lawless And Is Tyranny.