How do we glorify God through art?

we met together last night with a few other artistic-minded individuals from our community. we discussed all kinds of things, but the crux of the meeting was about how our community could use our creativities to glorify God and reach the rest of our community in various ways.

for the first time, i realized how lacking a typical church community is when it comes to the arts. there is often auditory art when it comes to our singing during the service. and from time to time there are groups that hold benefit concerts and various other things.

but for the most part, we tend to stick all artists into the role of “worship” team and ignore the vast majority of abilities that transcend sunday morning singing. in every church there are people with creativity and desire to paint, to dance, to write, to sing, etc. even though most of our churches include musicians in the service, it is very limited by the confines of the service. there is no room for creativity. it is the same old songs and the same type of music, day after day, week after week.

now i am not suggesting that we should include heavy metal as part of our service or some such thing. but that is because i believe being a church is much more than just a service once a week. we are called to live as a community. this means that we could come together as a community and use our abilities on other days of the week than just sunday. we “worship” God on sunday in the service, but sometimes, i believe we find more true worship when we are loving our neighbor in a small community gathering. does God need a guitar and drum set on sunday to bring Him glory?

as God says through his prophet Amos:

“I hate, I despise your religious feasts;
I cannot stand your assemblies.

22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.

23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24 But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

so maybe teaching a group of kids in the community how to sing because they desperately want to learn is more glorifying than our singing on sunday morning. maybe what we do the rest of the week, not just sunday, with the gifts God has given us is important.

my wife and i were talking about what this could look like in practical ways. we came up with some good ideas, i think. but i would like feedback from you the reader. in what ways can glorify God and build His kingdom through art?