My 3-year-old daughter dreamed about Elmo, the Sesame Street character. I realized she's dreaming about not her own characters but about someone else's. Her imagination has been "taken captive" by the world, in that sense.
If God gave people everything they ever dreamed of, what would that be? More money. Finding a great spouse. Good-looking children who are athletically gifted, academically strong, respectful. A nice home. A car that won't break down. People who don't go to church have the same dreams; have our imaginations been taken captive by the world?
In Ephesians 3, Paul is talking about "God doing immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine," and we don't know what to ask for or what to imagine. What to do?
The future of the church is in how willing we are to be counter-formed by the story of God, the full view of Gospel, so it unleashes in us "kingdom imagination."
Thursday, October 08, 2009
What We Imagine
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