BENTONVILLE, Ark.—Tim Stewart, a former pastor and minister, watched Shen Yun Performing Arts with his wife, Joyce Stewart, at the Arend Arts Center on Feb. 21.
“It was very enlightening,” said Mr. Stewart. “It was very colorful, very professional. I truly enjoyed the messages that they were trying to get across.”
“I love the idea that faith and compassion and perseverance will overcome the evil. They had such a beautiful way of showing it.”“Everybody needs faith,” said Mr. Stewart. “Faith moves the heart.”
“I really like that because it showed the divine intervention and what is needed in the heart even though the evil tries to overcome it,” said Mr. Stewart.
As a former pastor, Mr. Steward saw connections between his faith and Shen Yun’s presentation of the divine.
“Although it’s a different faith than ours, there was a lot of the same,” he said. “I noticed the same [faith], and it seems to be worldwide, and that is that man came from God, the divine creature, and that inside that we’re meant to be divine.”
Mr. Stewart shared his belief that one day humankind will return to heaven. “There is a longing for that in every human,” he added.
The Epoch Times is a proud sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts. We have covered audience reactions since Shen Yun’s inception in 2006.
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