On this first Sunday of our ministry together I’ll be using Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous address to the 1838 graduating class from Harvard’s Divinity School as the basis of my sermon. Emerson asked the graduates to imagine new ways of seeing the world and their ministry. My sermon will be asking you to imagine how we will be doing “church” here in the near future and with whom we will be doing it. As Joe Strummer said “the future is unwritten.”