Tim is a very gifted-communicator who has great energy and comes across very likeable. And so, many are surprised to discover that he is part of the emergent conversation. Seriously, a needed message on imagination . Here are the rough notes if interested.
Tim Keel – “Leadership, the Local Church and the Crisis of Imagination”
The most significant crisis that we may be facing is the Crisis of imagination.
imagination – the faculty or action of forming new ideas.
images or concepts not present to the senses.
you have the ability to see something that is not yet there.
Imagination is critical to leadership – especially if we are going to go some place we have never been.
unfortunately our well has run dry.
Our leadership imagination has been domesticated (has been “tamed” as defined by the audience)
Maybe we have domesticated the Holy spirit which is the source of imagination.
However is it possible to domesticate the HS?
So is the Spirit still in the building?
Our modern enlightenment epistemology –
truth and knowledge is always universal
leaders who are deeply imbedded in their context
they are seeing a God acting out in their place
we do not believe that God is active where we work and live – THUS we must go and find out where He is.
American pragmatism – (ministry titillation) – 2nd cousin to modern epistemology
Christian Century uses Jacob’s Well
Email of a person at “emerging” worship conference
Thomas merton passage
Jesus prayer of unity is an impossible …
Whenever we disagree with each other, we break fellowship
Bc in the west the worst sin is heresy
in the east churches, the worst sin is schism, breaking away.
in the absence of diversity we also lose imagination and create isolation.
imagination requires engagement
imagination requires hope
in place of modern commitments, many of us are understanding context, narrative
then we discover patterns of connectivity
Joy, partnership to a different future.
this was an awesome session!