Imagination makes the connection between the visible here and now world and the invisibility of the Spiritual realm. We can explain the scriptures and the things of God (head stuff), helping us pin things down and get a handle on how to apply them. Imagination opens up the scriptures and the ways of God leading to maturity worship, wonder, trust, mystery, adoration. – Explanation defines; Imagination expands. We need both in and out to breath the breath of the Spirit. – – So often our church congregations only have one half. We have forgotten how to breathe and we have lost touch with God. Like Jonah, like the labourers in the vineyard, our imaginations need to connect our everyday lives to God. Like the Copernican revolution. The universe was exactly the same before and after the realisation that the earth actually revolved around the sun and not the other way round. It was the imagination the imagery that changed. We began to imagine the universe exactly the same universe in a – – – – new way (and so our place in it shifted). God is working in and through and with our lives all the time. We are so busy with our tasks (many for God) that we involved in dance. We aren’t God’s need to stop seeing the tasks at the centre and let God back in there into our imaginations to take us where God already is moving and breathing and being, changing and transforming.
Imagination makes the connection between the visible here and now world and the invisibility of the Spiritual realm. We can explain the scriptures and the things of God (head stuff), helping us pin things down and get a handle on how to apply them. Imagination opens up the scriptures and the ways of God leading to maturity – worship, wonder, trust, mystery, adoration. Explanation defines; Imagination expands. We need both – in and out – to breath the breath of the Spirit. So often our church congregations only have one half. We have forgotten how to breathe and we have lost touch with God. Like Jonah, like the labourers in the vineyard, our imaginations need to connect our everyday lives to God. Like the Copernican revolution. The universe was exactly the same before and after the realisation that the earth actually revolved around the sun and not the other way round. It was the imagination – the imagery – that changed. We began to imagine the universe – exactly the same universe – in a new way (and so our place in it shifted). God is working in and through and with our lives all the time. We are so busy with our tasks (many for God) that we aren’t involved in God’s dance. We need to stop seeing the tasks at the centre and let God back in there into our imaginations to take us where God already is moving and breathing and being, changing and transforming.
427-Trinity-15-A-2017-A4-1.docx