Salvation is an act of reclamation and restoration. When Jesus saves us, he helps us reclaim the bits of humanity we’ve lost. Jesus gives us the ability to imagine good things and the power to realize them here and now. Community without exploitation. A sense of wealth that doesn’t demand scarcity. A love that doesn’t bleed us dry, but makes us whole. If only we imagine them, we can experience all these things. That’s what we were made to do. That’s what it means to be human.
If Jesus has the power to save, then we have the power to imagine again. We have the ability to theologize bigger. That is the image of God in us.
— Trey Ferguson, Theologizin’ Bigger, p. 186
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