Hey Readers, here's this week's READING SCAVENGER HUNT. Try to find the answers to the questions below. The answers come directly from the reading in the INTRODUCTION of UNION WITH CHRIST. You can share your answers with all of us as well as other insights you may have gained from the reading. Post your thoughts in the comment section below.
1. What do you normally think when you hear the word "imagination"?
2. How is the author using the word "imagination"?
3. How is imagination used in science?
4. How does God want us to use our imaginations?
5. How does the author biblically support his statements about using our imaginations to know and enjoy God? What biblical references does he cite?
6. Union with Christ was once considered to be at the very heart of why the gospel is good news. Nothing was more basic or more central to the Christian life that union with Christ. How has union with Christ changed for many people today? What are the consequences of this change?
7. C.S. Lewis famously said that before he was a Christian, reading the novels of George MacDonald "baptized" his imagination and made feasible for him to envision a different way of looking at the world. The apostle Paul prays that "having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance". What is the "eyes of your heart"?
1. What do you normally think when you hear the word "imagination"?
2. How is the author using the word "imagination"?
3. How is imagination used in science?
4. How does God want us to use our imaginations?
5. How does the author biblically support his statements about using our imaginations to know and enjoy God? What biblical references does he cite?
6. Union with Christ was once considered to be at the very heart of why the gospel is good news. Nothing was more basic or more central to the Christian life that union with Christ. How has union with Christ changed for many people today? What are the consequences of this change?
7. C.S. Lewis famously said that before he was a Christian, reading the novels of George MacDonald "baptized" his imagination and made feasible for him to envision a different way of looking at the world. The apostle Paul prays that "having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance". What is the "eyes of your heart"?