Godly Artists: The Role of Creativity in All of Us || Turning the World Upside Down, Again!
Sunday, July 12, 2026 || 11:00am
Rev. Bill Brown || Director of Congregational Vitality for the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church
What does faithful creativity make possible when the world resists change? This week we conclude our summer worship series, Godly Artists: The Role of Creativity in All of Us. Drawing from Acts 17, we will explore how the gospel calls ordinary people to imagine, embody, and proclaim a different kind of world—one shaped not by empire, fear, or self-preservation, but by the reign of Christ.
In Thessalonica, Paul and Silas are accused of “turning the world upside down” because their witness disrupts the powers that be and announces another king named Jesus. Their creative faith does more than offer new ideas. It forms a new community, tells a new story, and invites people to live according to a hope that unsettles injustice and reorders what we believe is possible.
Join us as we consider what it means, in our own time, to become Godly Artists who participate in God’s holy disruption, plant seeds of transformation, and offer our lives in service to the flourishing of the world. As this series concludes, we will reflect on how God’s Spirit continues to work through us, turning the world upside down, again.