Imagine...
Over the last ten to fifteen years I have become a big believer of the power and importance of the imagination. In fact, I think you could say that what captures your imagination captures you. Concerning our relationship with God, the question we might ask ourselves is, "Has God captured my imagination?"
A related question concerns the church: Has God captured our collective imagination? Frankly, a major problem that churches have is what we might refer to as "a failure of imagination." The God of the universe knows us by name, promises to lead us and make us fruitful, but for a variety of reasons, we don't let this reality seep into our imagination and let it take root. One of my favorite passages is Ephesians 3:20: "God can do anything, you know--far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us" (The Message).
Imagine what our church is capable of if we had a "conversion" of our imagination. What are your wildest dreams concerning our ministry and mission? If God captured our imagination, how far might we exceed our wildest dreams? By a factor of ten, a hundred, a thousand?!
A related question concerns the church: Has God captured our collective imagination? Frankly, a major problem that churches have is what we might refer to as "a failure of imagination." The God of the universe knows us by name, promises to lead us and make us fruitful, but for a variety of reasons, we don't let this reality seep into our imagination and let it take root. One of my favorite passages is Ephesians 3:20: "God can do anything, you know--far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us" (The Message).
Imagine what our church is capable of if we had a "conversion" of our imagination. What are your wildest dreams concerning our ministry and mission? If God captured our imagination, how far might we exceed our wildest dreams? By a factor of ten, a hundred, a thousand?!
posted by UCC Medfield at 8:17 AM
1 Comments:
How timely - not more than 5 minutes ago I was re-reading one of the parables that's part of this week's lesson for Jesus In The Gospels ... "And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold." (Mark 4:20) I pray that the soil of this church continues to be good - and maybe, even, that we can throw some fertilizer on :-)
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