Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become a slave of your model. – Vincent Van Gogh
I wonder: In the building of movements, do we depend upon a combination of methods, knowledge, and skills when what we need most is imagination?
Skye Jethani, in his book The Divine Commodity , suggests that the challenge facing Christianity is not a lack of resources or motivation, but “a failure of imagination.” We too often become slaves to the models and methods of the past. We want to obey Christ but lack his imagination. I'm trying to find approaches and/or questions that might trigger a Christlike imagination. Here are a few I’m trying:
I found the following story about Maggie Doyne–I don’t know her or her spiritual story. What I find compelling though is her imagination. What if all of us had “Christ-ignited imagination”?
Read the Fast Company article .
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