WHY ARTISTIC TALENTS LEAVE YOUR CHURCH

What is a talent?

Talent means the skill that someone has quite naturally to do something that is hard. Someone who has talent is able to do something without trying hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. It is a high degree of ability or of aptitudes. People may have talent for music,dancing acting or other skills. Someone who has talent is talented and If someone has talent they still have to work very hard if they want to be very good at something. Some people become quite good at something even if they do not have much talent, but if they are willing to work very hard at the skill. Some people “waste their talent” (they have talent but do not work hard at it, they do not use their talent.
 It's becoming increasingly popular for artists and creative artists to leave the church in search of deeper fulfillment. But why? What is it about the local church that is failing to capture the attention of this generation? Why are so many leaving the church? Why is serving the local church not capturing the imagination of our young musicians, writers, dancers, painters, and videographers?It's not about the money. We already know that creatives aren't just looking for the biggest paycheck. They crave, more than anything else, to do work that matters - to have freedom to create.
 The church is made up of all kinds of people–businessmen and women, farmers, industrial workers, theologians, teachers, blue collar, white collar, entrepreneurs, servants, and leaders–but there’s one group of people that the church is in danger of losing: her creative talents.
Dbanj,Banky W, Terry G, P-Square, Wande Coal, Dare Art Alade, KC Presh started from the church but they ended in the circular world because of one major reason.
That reason is that church culture has made it difficult for artistic people to express their creativity so they go into the world because the world accepts them better,so why are artistic people leaving your church?
I’m not trying to condemn the church, but I do know that the Reformation, which was a great movement by the way, was also partly responsible for throwing out church art to fight against the worship and veneration of images. However, in reaction, the church started to embrace a more austere and plain worship style–one where the arts and artists where no longer valued, and to some degree, kicked out with the icons. It was right to put a stop to the worship of images, but as a backlash, I think we’ve been fighting an anti-creative current for generations as a result.
The bottom line: the church at large needs to learn, once again, how to embrace and empower its creatives.
We need a creative revolution.
Not a revolution that makes creativity king, but a revolution that seeks to embrace artists. A revolution that restores value to their Kingdom contribution in deeper ways