Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo, the President and Senior Pastor of the KICC, which is the largest Church in Western Europe has just dropped a brand new book. It is a 98-page book titled The Creative Edge and with the
The book argues that since we are created in the image of God, our Creator, all of us posses inmate creative abilities.
According to Pastor Mathew in the introduction, We were created by God, for ourselves to be creative” he explains . “For you to understand this statement and to understand that creativity is hard wired into our DNA from the beginning by God. You would need to imagine our planet from the days of Adam.”
When God created Adam and Eve and put them on this planet, there was no house standing, no iron, no cars, no canoes, nothing except the planet pregnant with possibilities. I am sure, when they looked into the horizon, they saw nothing but greenery and animals.”
When I fast forward to 2018, when I am writing this book, you would see that man’s ingenuity and creativity have since made the earth to deliver what it was pregnant with. Iron was dug out of the earth for us to be able to have cars. First discovered by the Hittites with which they made chariots. Plastic has been used today to replace rubber. Rubber was discovered. Several minerals have since been discovered for different reasons. Our earth is now full of skyscrapers, buildings of amazing designs, unusual architectural and engineering feats have been achieved by mankind.
Creative capability runs in our veins. We all have it. It comes in different shapes, sizes and styles. Some write, some paint, some cook, some design, some sow, some look at wood and see furniture, Some look at plastic and see things to mould. Some take sand, mortar and bricks and turn them to uncommon and unusual houses. We all have an irresistible, divinely inspired impulse to create, to fashion and to organise.
We draw this from God who created everything. He put the earth in its current shape. We are surrounded by so much creativity that it is almost possible to take it for granted.
A person goes to the market, buys condiments and turns them to amazing food. A writer assembles letters, the 26 letters of the alphabet, and writes books that are practical, engaging, mind-boggling, attention-keeping; crafting out sentences and paragraphs to form the entire book. This again is a reflection of God’s ability to create
We have, in effect, become satellites of the greatest creator. Men, women, children are all creative and when we do, we are imaging Him. It is hard work to take words and create rhymes of poems, to take the greens of flowers and turn them to a beautiful garden, to take wood and turn it into beautiful furniture and make humanity to pay thousands for it.
One could fold his arms and do nothing and be a mere consumer. It is possible to suffocate your gifting and not create anything. We all have creative gifts. We are gifted and that is why musicians can create songs that amaze us and people can make cars that take us faster, quicker and with great comfort; airplanes that take us from one continent to the other; dancers who have turned main steps to things that keep us in amazement; music, a succession of sounds that keep us responding;
woodworkers, organisers, landscapers or what shall I say of preachers who are able to take the truths of scripture and craft an argument that is quite engaging and compelling.
We are creative, and when we do, we are copying our Maker. When we write a song or a book, we bring out the DNA of God that is in us.
Creativity reminds us of how much greater God is. He is the best, the greatest. That is why the best of us who has committed himself to creativity feels restless until he blesses, engages, draws or makes humanity feel better and enjoy the world. Even the clothes we wear were once cotton on a tree, or wool of a sheep on the plains of New Zealand.
We need to create. Creativity is what will make a photographer not to be satisfied with just having a camera; but what is the use of a camera if you do not capture the beauty of life with it? What is the use of a piano if there is no musician to bellow the sound inside it?
Creativity is part of mankind. We must discover our creative edge. Our creativity echoes God’s ability. It also shows that we are not God ourselves, we are an extension of the great Maker.
Some creativity grows out of serendipity. It is a sudden discovery that was not planned for. Others come out of curiosity, when we question and challenge the impossible, when we turn ‘why’ to ‘why not.’ Creativity requires that we have the eyes to see it and the mind to appreciate it.
Creativity requires that we answer questions and begin to create even when the value may not be obvious. The value may not always be known because it is new or has never been seen before. Imagine the great paintings of the likes of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Dalli etc. At the point of creation, they were not appreciated, but some have been sold for as high as fifty million dollars for one painting; never tested before, possibly never sold at the time of creation but later finding its value.
In this book, I will attempt to show how that creativity, particularly the body of Christ discovering, developing, deploying and demonstrating its creative edge may be our way of tapping into all the resources which we need for global evangelism.
At the time of writing this book, 4 companies namely, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google have a joint value greater than the GDP of a whole continent, the continent of Africa. Wikipedia puts the 2018 value of the GDP of the whole of Africa, from Cairo to Johannesburg at 2.2 trillion USdollars. On 30 May 2018, Microsoft was valued at 753 billion US dollars. 2018, Apple became 1 trillion US dollars. Facebook stands as 400 billion US dollars and on 30 May 2018, Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, was valued at 739 billion US dollars. These 4 companies, in 2018, were valued at a total of approximately 2.9 trillion US dollars. Ironically, the four companies did not exist 40 years ago and Facebook, as
Apart from Apple which produces physical products such as iPhones and iPads, all four companies have essentially developed concepts that depict creativity. Facebook created a virtual platform for a social community. Google started out mainly as a search engine and yet, their combined current value is more than that of a whole continent. Nothing else argues better for the fact that creativity is a major avenue for wealth creation”
It is a 6 chapter book which is now selling like hot cake. So why not get your copy from Ashimolowo International
