“Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good.” --1 Thessalonians 5:19-21

Dreamers.

Few words are as packed with emotion or pump out more meaning that that one word “dreamer.”

We can see “dreamers” often critically as people who have their heads in the clouds, who don’t see reality for what it is, or who need to get their feet planted on the ground in the ways the world works. But “dreamers” are our optimists, our artists, our entrepreneurs, our writers, our people of imagination. And in our everyday world of rational, logical, practical matters, their creative voices don’t much seem to matter. The church doesn’t seem to know what to do with them.

After all, there are bills to be paid, Christmas gifts to afford, work to be done, jobs to be he…