Soul Friend

Had a fun night teaching briefly on the gift of , & Imaginative engagement with (not to insinuate ‘not real’), and then practicing it with The Road to Emmaus passage (Luke 24:13-35).

My contention is that Our Father’s primary design for imagination is that it’s a real, yet intangible faculty through which He invites us to live more like , and join Him in His world-renewing work (Rev. 21:5).

Imagination is like the blank canvas, the Word and the Holy Spirit are like the art implements. Remaining rooted in the Biblical narrative, and welcoming the creative work of the Holy Spirit is essential. Just as the Word and Spirit brought order and out of chaos in the beginning, so too they create order and beauty out of the chaos of our lives.

“And after he has implanted new life from above in us by Word and Spirit, we can (and must) also begin to take initiative in progressively retaking the whole of our thought-life [imagination] for God’s Kingdom.”
-Dallas Willard, ‘Renovation of the Heart