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The Problem of Western Cultural views of how to lead and organize
Yep.. Western cultural views of how best to organize and lead (the majority paradigm in use in the world) are contrary to what life teaches. Western practices attempt to dominate life; we want life to comply with human needs rather than working as partners. This disregard for life’s dynamics is alarmingly evident in today’s organizations.…
Read MoreYou’ve Been Left Behind
From our good friend, Lesslie Newbigin in his most excellent book Household of God, It is surely a fact of inexhaustible significance that what our Lord left behind Him was not a book, nor a creed, nor a system of thought, nor a rule of life, but a visible community. I think that we protestants…
Read MoreEcclesiology is the Caboose to Grace
“A systematic theology of grace puts church in its right place. Church is at best the caboose to grace. It is its tail. Ecclesiology, on the other hand, makes church into the engine.” Paul Zaul, Grace in Practice
Read MoreAre People Weary about Generosity?
“People are weary of being asked to do the least they can possibly do. People are yearning to measure the full distance of their potential on behalf of the causes they care about deeply, but they have to be asked.” Dan Pallotta From Dan’s provocative TedTalk
Read MoreCommunity and Mission
A community becomes truly and radiantly one when all its members have a sense of urgency in their mission. There are too many people in the world who have no hope. There are too many cries which go unheard. There are too many people dying in loneliness. Its when the members of a community realize…
Read MoreThe Church and the World
“Church and the world are not two compartments under separate legislation or two institutions with contradictory assignments, but two levels of the pertinence of the same Lordship. The people of God is called to be today what the world is called to be ultimately.” – John Howard Yoder in Body Politics
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