Here are some of the comments we have recieved about our Christian Artwork.
Just recently we put up "Tetelestai" in a huge Sunday School Department at First Baptist Atlanta where Dr. Charles Stanley is the Pastor. He loved the artwork. It says so much. We have it displayed next to a huge banner of the Ten Commandments. It is making an impact. People stare at it and realize that Christ died for them. I had the opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with a pretty rough looking youth. It was such a visual that the youth said that he understood the meaning of the cross. He understood that is where all his debt was paid. The literal meaning of "tetelestai" is "the debt is paid, or paid in full." The art piece invokes a response. Hopefully, the youth will truly repent of his sins, and fully understand that Christ came to pay his sin debt in full. Tetelestai made the witness more real.
Paul Diamond
Assistant to Dr. Stanley
First Baptist Atlanta
Mrs. Perini,
The church I Pastor, Sawdust road Baptist, recently gave me one of your pieces of artwork for my birthday. "Tetelestai" Cross Sculpture
I saw it while in Ridgecrest North Carolina shopping in the Life Way Store and said to one of our ladies jokingly that it would look nice in the Pastor Study.
When I look at the artwork each day I will be reminded of what I have already experienced in my life some 25 years ago because of the finished work of Jesus on the Cross at Calvary…
Ephesians 2:13 says; “But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”
In His Grip,
Tim D. Byrd-Pastor
Sawdust Road Baptist Church
3100 Sawdust Road
Spring, Texas 77380
www.sawdustroadbc.org
"Not since Footprints in the Sand has an artistic piece portrayed the personalized aspect of our relationship with our Redeemer, and further, in such a fashion as to bring us face-to-face with the faults and frailties of our human flesh, allowing the Holy Spirit to convict us so consciously."
- Jeff Rosenthal, Completed Jew / Creative Art Consultant
Already clients have displayed their sorrow ,when I explained to them why the Christian sculpture was not hanging above the staircase. " I sold it " I told them "oh no" they exclaimed" .....but then I reassured them that another cross sculpture is on it's way.
There reaction confirmed mine...I could not bare the absence of this cross....not only the absence of it's Beauty, but also the absence of the Love that radiates from it!!!.......What greater Love do we have but this....'JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED....THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD....THE ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF THE LOVE OF OUR FATHER, TO US !
If we could only grasp a fraction of this Love...our faith would never falter......
Thank you Sandra Joy for your obedient heart...for creating such a powerful Biblically inspired artwork.......pouring out His blood....pouring His Self out........for Us!
"Oh Father help Us to realize the Fullness of this SACRIFICE!!! and to 'BE' worthy of it!"
IN JESUS NAME, Tracee Froehling