Emphasis Preaching Journal
Imagining possibilities
Commentary
There is no prescription for how people change. In spite of our best psychology and all the rest, it still remains a mystery as to how individuals significantly alter their lives and their self-understanding. Clergy certainly know firsthand the mystery of how individuals are transformed. However, one theory holds some promise, we believe, of enlightening this mystery. Some have said that people change only after they have imagined a new possibility for themselves.