Silver Imagination
Posted in Alan Hirsch, Auxano, Will Mancini, church stuff, imagination, missional on August 15th, 2008 by Steve Bradley – 3 Comments
[Silver frame photo courtesy of Michal Zacharzewski, SXC]
Auxano’s founder, Will Mancini, is one of the presenters at the PGF conference (Presbyterian Global Fellowship), going on this weekend. Sharing a coaching platform with Alan Hirsch yesterday, Will relayed on his blog a great quote from Alan, which ties in with my recent posts on doing church and kingdom imagination. He writes:
My favorite quote of the day was, “There is no silver bullet, but there is a silver imagination.” “Constantine is still the emperor of our minds” when it comes to how we think about church, Alan states. The silver imagination is about re-calibrating to our founder- Jesus; a process Alan calls radical traditionalism. He urged the presbyterian leaders wrestling through missional transformation to think like beginners and not experts- “we have to be OK with not knowing all of the answers.”
These are great thoughts. Rather than a quick fix or silver bullet, we need silver imaginations.
Minds that are transformed and renewed by our willingness to sacrifice everything at the feet of our Savior. Minds that are taken captive, and are captivated, by Christ. Minds fueled by the Spirit to see beyond current circumstances and past experiences. Minds that can only imagine where God is leading…
Do you tend to look for silver bullets, or silver imaginations? What has God placed in your imagination?
