Who Will Feed the Culture?

Dr. Bryan Crute

Austin Crute on Majors and Minors

by Bryan Crute, Senior Pastor, Destiny Metropolitan Worship Church, Marietta, GA

I grew up watching my Mom prepare hundred and hundreds of meals for any and everyone who stopped by our home. Sunday dinners were the highlight of the week as she prepared a feast fit for kings. However, I noticed she would rarely measure the seasonings. A pinch of this, a dash of that, scoops of sugar or whatever she was using always left us full and looking forward to her next “labor of love.” Even the leftovers tasted better once the seasonings had really permeated the food.

Salt, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, paprika, and so many other wonderful seasonings must be poured from the shakers. They have to be integrated within food that is to be eaten. Left within their shakers, they have no effect. I think the same is true for Christians who are called to the arts/entertainment sphere of influence.

When I think about Jesus’ description of the church being salt and light, (Matthew 5:13) it’s very easy to see the application as it relates to the music and entertainment industry. What I love about AMTC is the seasoning that it provides for the actors, models, and varied talent of its family members. That’s why our church decided to partner with AMTC. They helped provide seasoning for the talent we have within our church family and community.

Our family has been members of the AMTC family now for a little over a year because of our 16 year old son, Austin, who aspires to “change the world through his music.” After participating in the Winter 2011 SHINE showcase in Florida and receiving at least 25 callbacks from the agents who were there, he is on his way to presenting a well-seasoned bevy of options to a culture who is hungering for “the next.” See Majors and Minors

The culture is hungry for the “next” in the arts and entertainment industry. What will it be fed? Who will feed it? I think, more times than not, the church offers “values meals” that are too bland for the culture to even appreciate. Sadly, much of the marinating talent that is within the church lacks the industry standards of excellence required to even be options for the culture. C’mon church folk. Let’s unleash those within our congregations who have been well-seasoned to provide wholesome, healthy, flavorful, nutritious, delicious tasting options for the culture.

Yes, there will always be critics in the church who believe that to feed the culture with palatable menu offerings created by committed Christians is compromise. I think it’s strategic, godly wisdom. At the end of the day, I say to the committed believers, who are often maligned and criticized for wanting to present their gifts and talents to a hungry culture that would devour their well-seasoned songs, scripts, and strolls, let them “taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8).