Well this turned into quite the busy summer for me. I took 10 hours of class on top of working 30 hours a week at Starbucks; and then we decided to throw in a move. I am currently enjoying my week break (we start class again this coming Monday). So needless to say I am a bit worn out. I am looking forward to settling into a routine this fall.
The thought of writing anything at the moment of any significance feels quite burdensome to me, but I will offer one insight that came to me through my studies this summer.
Imagination is the interpretive key. One can spend incredible amounts of energy learning and studying the scriptures in order to understand what it is that they mean. But in the end it requires a profound imagination and creative freedom to envision and enact the biblical reality in our own day in age. The Biblical story paints a picture of a new world, a new way of being, a new reality that has been brought about through the creative working of God via Christ. The Biblical story though, is incredibly specific and bound to is own context. The creative imagination of Christ that radically changed the landscape of first century Palestine cannot simply be replicated on a one to one basis into our time. It requires an imaginary leap. One must be inspired and awed by the reality that God creates through the Biblical narrative, and then that inspiration must be used as raw fuel in order for us to create a new reality in our day. The key to reading scripture well, or living scripture well, is to have an imagination that runs wild.
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