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June 19, 2012

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Seth Vopat

Mike,

How would you say we are to keep tradition and imagination working together hand in hand? Perhaps I am alone, but in history it appears to me that at times tradition would often stifle imagination to the point of imagination hoisting a flag of say teenage rebellion to all out rejecting tradition. How to we form a relationship between the two that allows each to mutually thrive?

Erik Leafblad

Imagination is always rooted to tradition. The question is which tradition. What is the tradition that funds the kinds of imaginative practices and behaviors being lived out? When the church has used imagination as a kind of outreach strategy, tactic for relevancy or really a means to some other results-oriented goal, they are imaginatively embodying the tradition of American pragmatism. Thus, they shouldn't be surprised when the congregation inhabits that tradition, and uses their imagination toward pragmatic ends.

Prophetic imagination was creative, but also rooted within a faithful tradition. It was a call to imaginatively embody the faithful traditions of their ancestors, to be who God had made Israel to be.

Mike King

I think embodying the the beauty of our shared story through communal and liturgical practices fuels our imagination to contextualize in robust ways how to live our lives together faithfully in ways that truly bare witness to the Great Good News revealed by God through Jesus Christ.

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