Broken Beauty

"Kintsugi" is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics using lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. It sees breakage as something to be highlighted rather than hidden, and the result often increases the object's value. Kintsugi makes the broken beautiful.

Kintsugi perfectly illustrates the Gospel. We are broken; God takes the pieces and puts them back together; and the result is something more valuable and beautiful than before. Jesus Christ is the lacquer that makes this possible. However, before God can turn our mess into a masterpiece, we must come to grips with the fact that we are broken. Then and only then will God make the broken beautiful.

A great example of someone recognizing their brokenness was the tax collector in Luke 18. He stood off at a distance and would not even look up to heaven but beat his breast, saying, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner" (v. 13). The tax collector had come to grips with the fact that he was spiritually bankrupt and in desperate need of God's repair.

If you are broken and want God to put you back together, come see us at the Village Church of Christ on Balboa Road. Nearly every week we see people being made beautiful by God's amazing grace. If He can do it for them, He can do it for you!