Walter Brueggemann writes in The Prophetic imagination, “It is the task of pophetic imagination and minsitry to engage the promise of newness that is at work in our history with God(p.62).” That quote carries part of the foundation of discipleship. Being a disciples of Jesus is to be continually equipped for what He will do. One of the things He will do is to make all things new (Rev. 21:5). As Terry Fullam used to say, “Aren’t you glad God did not say, “I make all new things.” To engage the promise of newness is not to hoep that eveyrthing would go away and God would start over. Rather, it is to have for the first time what God has wanted all along. It is to be transformed into all we were originally created to be. It is to be restored to our purpose for being. It is to fulfill the calling God has placed on each and everyone of us. It isd to truly know our identity. From that point we can serve our communities in ways that each comunity becomes all that it was meant to be.
