Embracing a Kingdom Imagination

Posted under Consumerism, Culture, Inspiration, church growth, creative, future church, influence, leadership by FPeatross

Historians report that transitions can take twenty-five years to shake out. But once the pieces fall together and things settle, grandchildren often look back and ask, “You mean you did it that way?” One of the most difficult things to do when you’re living in the middle of a transition is to recognize the shifts and adjust in reel-time. As a result faith communities struggle to understand declines and solutions. Often church leaders rely on what they know best-the experienced successes of the recent past. A large percentage of congregations are relying on what worked early in the 21-first-century; the crafting of the attractional worship model. 

People of faith must embrace a kingdom imagination and take our enculturated lives seriously. We start when we change the terms of the conversation. We no longer critique, consume, or copy culture-we make culture.