When I was a kid, I would wait at the bus stop and think about the future. I was a quiet kid, the only boy in my family, living in a neighborhood where most of the other children were older than me. I didn’t talk much, but I watched. I imagined.
I imagined what the world would look like in 30 years, and I dreamed of who I’d become by then. Maybe I’d be a scientist, or a basketball player, or a politician.
Children imagine — they think about future possibilities rather than present realities. In my view, imagination is at the root of faith. It’s that God-planted sense of purpose that whispers deep in our hearts: “there must be more.”
In Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP) the Bible says,
…He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]…
That mysterious longing and sense of divine purpose is planted in each of us. It’s planted in me. It’s planted in you. It’s what made that little boy at the bus stop dream of the future. It’s what nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God. While our imagination is limited to what our human eyes can see, God has an eternal purpose that goes far beyond any career, credential, or achievement. He can do far more than anything we can ask or imagine, and he is forming us to rise to becme all that we were meant to be.
During a time of great upheaval, John F. Kennedy gave his generation a call to rise to their destiny:
JFK: “We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier,” he said, — “a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils — a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.”
Kennedy spoke these words in 1960, but his words could have been written today.
The opportunities are different now. The upheaval has taken a new form. But the frontier — that sense of standing on the edge of something unknown — hasn’t changed.
We live in a globalized, interconnected, and yet profoundly lonely world—a world desperate for purpose, hope, and identity. A world that’s lost some of its childlike imagination. A world longing to answer questions like: what is my purpose in life? Who am I meant to become? What am I here for?
God has the answers to these questions, and those who rely on him to orchestrate everything in their lives discover that it is all working towards something good.
Everything. The uncertainty. The upheaval. The unanswered questions. He is shaping us, forming us, and turning us into people whose lives reflect something the world is desperate to see.
That’s what happens when a life is genuinely transformed by God. And it’s what we are building here at the Bay Area Christian Church.
The Bay Area Christian Church is an independent, non-denominational church with one mission in mind: to walk with God, make him known, and do good wherever we go, no religious affiliation required. As each individual develops a personal walk with God, that will overflow into spiritually formative friendships and social impact in our communities. It will overflow into a changed world, one person at a time.
Just like today, the early Christians found themselves in a moment of real upheaval.
Acts 12:24 (The Voice) says:
“Through all this upheaval, God’s message spread to new frontiers and attracted more and more people.”
Not in spite of the upheaval. Through it. The Bible tells us of people who listened to the purpose planted in their hearts and imagined what they could do together with God. As each of us develops personal transformative walks with God like that, the impact is obvious: God is made audible and accessible to those who don’t know him. The next generation is inspired to grow, spiritually formed, and equipped to lead. Individuals are empowered to do authentic good in their communities, not as a strategy, but as an overflow of their walk with God. The world is changed.
This was true for the Christians in Acts, and it is true for us today.
The question isn’t whether the frontier exists. It’s whether we will imagine a greater future and rely on the God who can help us rise to meet it. That’s what we’re here to do. And we’d love to invite you to be part of it.
The walk with God that turns his dreams for us into impact that changes the world.
May 7, 2026
The walk with God that forms our identity and infuses us with inner strength.