"A Kingdom Imagination looks forward to the restoration, allowing that vision to shape the contour of our lives today. It looks around at the brokenness of our world and imagines seeds of beauty, truth, and justice we can plant to seek the prosperity of our city. It looks back to the resurrection to remind us of the way the Kingdom has already broken into the here and now.
So often we think of our imagination as make-believe, fantasy, oompa loopa type stuff with no bearing on reality. But our imagination can have powerful impacts on our real, ordinary lives. Consider the Artemis II astronauts; as children, they heard stories from their parents of watching Apollo crew members step foot on the moon. Their imagination was captivated so deeply that it set a trajectory for their own history-shaping journey around the moon. It filled them with motivation to do the hard thing, day after day, year after year, even when odds were slim that their vision would be realized. And when they accomplished their life goal, they came back changed by a new, imagination-shaping experience: seeing the moon with their own eyes, up close and personal.
Kingdom imagination is similarly shaped by real history and a real future. None of us will likely ever go to space, but we have encountered the risen Jesus and will continue to see His Kingdom break into the here and now as we await its full arrival. So what if we let that reality captivate our Spirit-led imagination and shape how we live? How would our families, neighborhoods, and cities be transformed?"