In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell describes christian followers as painters who need to keep painting & reforming the way Christian faith is defined, lived and explained. The following will explain more about this analogy.
Here's what often happens: Somebody comes along who has a fresh perspective on the Christian faith. People are inspired. A movement starts. Faith that was stale and dying is now alive. But then the pioneer of the movement (the painter) dies and the followers stop exploring. Eventually, the painting is no longer relevant. It doesn't fit. It's outdated. It doesn't have anything to say to the world they live in every day.
So, the challenge of the art is to take what was great about the previous paintings and incoporate that into new paintings. And in the process, make something beautiful - for today~cC
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