Have We Lost Our Imagination?
I recently said, “I think compassion is a muscle and the church has atrophy. Time to build some muscle.”
Another muscle withering away due to neglect is imagination.
We have lost our imagination.
I think this happens because we are so easily tempted to mimic, copy, follow, and accept status quo as reasonable and good enough.
In the church it happens like this: we look to another church in some other part of the state or country that is considered successful because of one or more of the “B’s” – buildings, budgets, and butts-in-seats. We esteem these other churches as having or being something that we also should have or be. We podcast them. We fly over to them and scribble notes about everything we see and hear. We meet with their leaders to get their secret recipes. And then we bring it home to our state, city, neighborhood.
This whole thing reeks of a lack of imagination.
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