KEYNOTE FOR CHURCH & MINISTRY LEADERS
Leading With Imagination
What C.S. Lewis and Walt Disney knew about vision, creativity, and calling that most church leaders have quietly forgotten. A keynote for pastors, denominational leaders, and ministry executives ready to build something that lasts.
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That night my imagination was baptized. The rest of me took longer.
— C.S. LEWIS, ON READING GEORGE MACDONALD’S PHANTASTES AT AGE 18
Lewis didn’t argue his way to faith. His imagination turned first before his intellect had caught up. And what he discovered that night is the single most important insight for every church leader in this room: imagination precedes commitment. Every single time.
Before your congregation will embrace a vision, they have to be able to picture themselves inside it. Before your team will step into discipleship, they have to be able to imagine themselves as disciples. The question isn’t whether you’re cultivating imagination in your ministry. You are. The question is what kind.
IS YOUR MINISTRY EXPERIENCING THIS?
Vision
Fatigue
You’ve cast the vision. Multiple times. People nod — and nothing changes.
Cynicism
in the room
Church hurt, institutional memory, and “we tried that in 1987” are your watchful dragons.
Execution without imagination
The programs run. The calendar fills. But something essential is missing.
The hollow question
You’ve built something successful — and quietly asked: is this all there is?
This keynote is for leaders ready to move from vision atrophy to the kind of prophetic imagination that builds something lasting, not just something successful.
IS YOUR MINISTRY EXPERIENCING THIS?
I
What Imagination
Actually Does
INSPIRED BY C.S. LEWIS, EUGENE PETERSON, N.T. WRIGHT,
AND JAMES K.A. SMITH
Imagination is the organ of meaning. Not decoration, but foundation. This movement reframes how church leaders understand vision, formation, and the deep logic behind why people change.
II
How to Systematize
It for Your Team
INSPIRED BY WALT DISNEY,
ED CATMULL, SETH GODIN,
AND JIM COLLINS
Walt Disney built a repeatable system for turning impossible vision into tangible reality: the Dreamer, the Realist, and the Critic. Your ministry can run the same loop. This movement gives you the framework and the method.
III
Why It Must
Be Baptized
INSPIRED BY SIMON SINEK, PATRICK LENCIONI, BRENÉ BROWN, MAKOTO FUJIMURA, AND FREDERICK BUECHNER
Functional imagination serves the next initiative and eventually runs out of fuel. Kingdom imagination, rooted in resurrection hope and prophetic calling, sustains a lifetime of leading. This is the difference.
WHAT THEY LEAVE WITH — FIVE PRACTICES, IMPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY
01
Wonder
02
Vision
03
Creation
04
Execution
05
Refinement
Plus a structured 30-day challenge your team begins before they leave the room.
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