Consulting

Troy and Josh serve congregations by working with volunteers, pastors, artists, and leadership through coaching in missional theology. He addresses issues including worship styles, church identity, young adult ministry, outreach, and congregational creativity as extensions of the church’s unspoken theologies about calling and imagination. Shift and widen your church’s perspectives through Troy’s intentional-yet-personal approaches.

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What people are saying about Church as Art’s consulting…

Troy Bronsink is doing creative, needed, and exciting things in Atlanta, and he’s an excellent resource for anyone seeking to envision what worship gatherings can be and accomplish in the formation of missional, spiritually vibrant individuals and communities. I’m so glad his voice is being heard and appreciated!”–Brian McLaren, Emergent Leader; Chairman of Board, Sojourners

Troy Bronsink has an unusual mastery of several different sources of knowledge, and he is skilled in leading people to see the possible in the impossible. Grounded in the Reformed tradition, steeped in Presbyterian polity, and well-versed in Scripture, he is one of the most interesting and creative thinkers in the church today. I have learned a lot from him, as have all of us in Atlanta who have thought together about the emerging church. He’s both our heart and brain trust.” – Dr. Joanna Adams, Pastor, Morningside Presbyterian and Georgia Woman of the Year.

Our church needed to see itself again through fresh eyes. We designed a 6 week series of reflective, small group, worship/sharing experiences, and invited Troy to be our worship, song, and discussion leader. We originally imagined this time as an opportunity for those in the community around us to come and share what God was already doing outside our little church. But we quickly realized we needed to do some internal work first. Troy was a big part of that. His hopeful, but challenging eye helped us see ourselves more truly. He invited us to be very honest. In so doing, he encouraged us to see how our words and actions may or may not be portraying the faith we feel to those outside our membership. While we are still struggling with what to set down, what to change, and what to start, Troy’s presence among us helped move us closer to reengaging God’s ever present Kingdom, and our important role in helping it become “on earth, as it is in heaven.” – Rev. Joel Tolbert, Pastor Rehobith Presbyterian

Troy’s presentation for our 2007 Lent study series was energizing and thought-provoking for our group. He took us effortlessly through song, discussion, individual reflection, and prayer. He arrived well-prepared for our session and shaped our time together well, while responding thoughtfully to questions as they arose. He reads widely and can weave together systematic theology with popular culture in a way that is engaging and smart.

Troy possesses a strong prophetic voice, but that voice is grounded in his love for the church as it is and as it should be. As a result, he is able to say what we need to hear in a way that we can hear it. Troy would be both a breath of fresh air and a spiritual kick in the pants for any church session. –Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana, Associate Minster, Burke Presbyterian, Virginia

Why Worship Consultation?

What makes a church style contemporary? What does “emergent” mean, and why all the buzz about it? Why do so many mainline churches have such a hard time doing contemporary worship? How does the reformed tradition and presbyterian polity converge with this emergence? Why do so many evangelical churches have a hard time with tradition, ritual, and engagement with social righteousness? How can might congregations celebrate their traditions of worship while learning from and adapting to complimentary styles from contemporary emerging expressions? How can we get the un-churched young adults in our neighborhood into worship, or should we even try? Why are downtown churches’ attendances decreasing while downtown neighborhoods are growing? How do we even begin to make disciples in an era of global disparity, mass-media marketing, and post-modern skepticism?

These are all questions regarding the mission of the church. Putting aesthetics and theology in opposition or defining contemporary as anti-traditional can just be cultural excuses for the church stuck in writers block. What if, instead, we asked how our institutional habits might enable us to live in the way of Jesus inspiring our witness among our neighbors? What if we saw the church’s friendship between both Gospel and culture as a momentum continually pressing us to innovate upon our own tradition…

This is emergence, risks in faith and imagination to move toward where God’s work of art, “the reign of God,” leads and anticipates.

About Troy

Troy Bronsink is an artist and a pastor seeking the way of Jesus. He and his wife, Kelley, and daughter, Eve, live in the Capitol View area of Atlanta, where they are forming “Neighbor’s Abbey,” an holistic monastic community. Their family has been passionate about community development, education, and creativity for year. In integrating these Troy has become a contributor in the emerging church conversation. He is a singer-songwriter with 10 years of experience as ranging from youth minister to worship director to senior pastor, and in both the mainline and para-church field. Troy has an MDiv from of Columbia Theological Seminary, is an ordained Presbyterian minister, served on the presbytery’s Emerging Church Committee, co-facilitates the Atlanta Emergent Cohort. He is a contributing author to the 2007 Baker Emersion release, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, and is an active blogger at churchasart.com.

“The church is the community called by God in Jesus Christ to simultaneously be God’s Artwork, God’s Artists, and Curators of God’s Art Installation.”

Troy serves congregations by working with pastors, artists, and leadership through coaching in missional theology. He addresses issues including worship styles, church identity, young adult ministry, outreach, and congregational creativity as extensions of the church’s unspoken theological perspectives on calling and imagination. Shift and widen your church’s perspectives through intentional-yet-personal approaches including the following.

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