Now, as you know, I’m not an advocate of Christianity or Christendom, but of Jesus and following him. And, I know that cultural Christianity is a definite issue where you’re at…actually, where we’re all at. But here’s a question for you, Why do you think that recycling is the top priority on God’s mind for the residents of your part of the world?

Also, Why does spiritual imagination begin with a deep introspective look, as opposed to beginning wherever it wants?
After all, that’s what imaginations are good at.

God has already given us imagination, humble or not. In fact, without it we could never even begin to imagine Psalm 14.

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I ride around my high-end Christian neighborhood here in 98% Christian and 99% Republican northeast Tarrant County Texas and see that the most fervent Christian leaders in my area don’t – for example – recycle at all. You can identify the homes of the president of the local Christian school and a couple of local churches by their complete lack of any semblance of social conscience. They’ve got it all figured out. God fits very neatly in the nice little package they have designed for him.

I think you grossly overestimate Christiandom. I say it’s time for some Psalm 14 kind of thinking: “There is no one who does good. The LORD has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Spiritual imagination begins with the deep introspective look, with honesty about who each of us is as part of fallen humanity. God cannot give us His imagination until we humble ourselves to receive it.

You must live in a totally different kind of community than the one I live in. I see some imagination in the leaders of the church I attend, but the truth is that I think Christianity has mostly failed the world and people God has given into our care.

And I though back to one of the Greatest “Imagin-eers” when he said “I Have A Dream”! It wasn’t fully realied but he cast that dream to a nation and they responded!