Imagination

I think my imagination is being restored.

I'm little by little becoming excited about the possibilities of a Jesus-centric life again. I've spent far too much time in the last few years being cynical about Christians and churches. Now, I'm beginning to see again (or perhaps for the very first time) that I need to be affinitied (not a real word, I know) to churches, not alienated from them. Why would we abandon people who already have a commitment to at least some of the things of Jesus (much of the time), in exclusive favor of those who have none? I, with "them" (meaning - "WE") need to together pursue Jesus and his transformation for the world.

And I believe it is God's desire to transform the world. One person at a time.

And it can happen through churches - because it can happen through the people, who are self-organized into these communities called churches. All we need is a refreshed devotion to Jesus, and de-tachment from sin and the world.

Meaning a detachment from obsession with entertainment and comfort and busyness and toys. Because what of these things will last? Only what we deposit into people, and that we do in service to God, because it is his heart to see all people loved and to have the utmost opportunity to choose Him, to choose righteousness, to choose to love people.

This is a bit rambling, but I'm out of time so I can't revise it and polish it. But just know this, oh dear reader - my imagination is being restored. I'm beginning to re-imagine the possibility of transformed people... including myself.