{"id":9759,"date":"2026-05-22T23:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:06:56","slug":"theologizing-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9759","title":{"rendered":"Theologizin&#8217; Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6.jpg\" alt=\"Red and yellow tulips in a field.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ferguson6-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salvation is an act of reclamation and restoration.  When Jesus saves us, he helps us reclaim the bits of humanity we&#8217;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&#8217;t demand scarcity.  A love that doesn&#8217;t bleed us dry, but makes us whole.  If only we imagine them, we can experience all these things.  That&#8217;s what we were made to do.  That&#8217;s what it means to be human.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Trey Ferguson, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/theologizin_bigger.html\">Theologizin&#8217; Bigger<\/a><\/em>, p. 186<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Burnside Farms, Nokesville, Virginia, April 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvation is an act of reclamation and restoration. When Jesus saves us, he helps us reclaim the bits of humanity we&#8217;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&#8217;t demand scarcity. A love that doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,36,49,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atonement","category-community","category-imagination","category-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9762,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions\/9762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}