Saturday, October 11, 2008
Beloved Community, Troy Bronsink cont.
Evangelicals are now longing for a third space to talk about social justice. Willow Creek has now learned that their formation was not working like they believed it would. Mainline churches are now looking at people as capital, not as possibilities for following the spirit into the future.
We don't pause.
Knowledge management, get a group of ideas, to organize together, get experts to find out the best answers on this, so we can collectively see the best possibilities of knowledge. Boomers began developing through software.
Social media, connecting people for genx and millenials.
Millenials are born into complexity, genxers are into it, boomers are against it.
Best practices are not possible, but take a picture of the whole, and best participate in that whole by stepping into it. The spirit is sending gifts to guide us. We are tasting the future, how are we equipping people to be aware of that.
Broadcasting narrowed to narrowcasting which narrowed to egocasting. Boomers may say you should put my info in your egocast, but don't consider that people recalibrate that according to the usefulness of their information to you.
Industrialization made it hard for anyone to see the whole, Institutionalization made it hard for people to make their own decisions-all came from the big boss at the main office-not connected to community, the Information Age gave people the option to make choices for themselves but still focused on the right answer-can prooftext based on the whole of known information to prove our points, Future will require empathy, creativity, synthesis-taking for granted that info is everywhere, but that true talent is bringing together the needed parts and let go those unneeded as we go into the unknown.
Being open to risks and experimentation.
Stages of an organization-emergence, everyone is involved and open.
Turn to practical matters-setting up systems
Systems get better and better
Then systems break down for some reason
Back to wandering
Then back to emergence.
What does the church have to offer people? Also need to ask how will people coming toward the church change us? Are some of us for all of us?
Churching is artistry.
Where are god's purposes and where do we need to go in them?
We're God's work of art, allows for intuitions and the movement of God that we are a part of
We're God's artists, we are doing the work and shaping the movement, suspending time for a moment to really look and listen to the medium
We're curators of God's art, we must look and see what is out there and how it is a part of the story and the community and nurture and be a patron of that.
Suffering and affliction is also something we must pause and determine how it is a part of the story as well.
We join the suffering and go forward, not about winning or defeating the suffering, but going forward now seeing and doing a new thing.
We don't pause.
Knowledge management, get a group of ideas, to organize together, get experts to find out the best answers on this, so we can collectively see the best possibilities of knowledge. Boomers began developing through software.
Social media, connecting people for genx and millenials.
Millenials are born into complexity, genxers are into it, boomers are against it.
Best practices are not possible, but take a picture of the whole, and best participate in that whole by stepping into it. The spirit is sending gifts to guide us. We are tasting the future, how are we equipping people to be aware of that.
Broadcasting narrowed to narrowcasting which narrowed to egocasting. Boomers may say you should put my info in your egocast, but don't consider that people recalibrate that according to the usefulness of their information to you.
Industrialization made it hard for anyone to see the whole, Institutionalization made it hard for people to make their own decisions-all came from the big boss at the main office-not connected to community, the Information Age gave people the option to make choices for themselves but still focused on the right answer-can prooftext based on the whole of known information to prove our points, Future will require empathy, creativity, synthesis-taking for granted that info is everywhere, but that true talent is bringing together the needed parts and let go those unneeded as we go into the unknown.
Being open to risks and experimentation.
Stages of an organization-emergence, everyone is involved and open.
Turn to practical matters-setting up systems
Systems get better and better
Then systems break down for some reason
Back to wandering
Then back to emergence.
What does the church have to offer people? Also need to ask how will people coming toward the church change us? Are some of us for all of us?
Churching is artistry.
Where are god's purposes and where do we need to go in them?
We're God's work of art, allows for intuitions and the movement of God that we are a part of
We're God's artists, we are doing the work and shaping the movement, suspending time for a moment to really look and listen to the medium
We're curators of God's art, we must look and see what is out there and how it is a part of the story and the community and nurture and be a patron of that.
Suffering and affliction is also something we must pause and determine how it is a part of the story as well.
We join the suffering and go forward, not about winning or defeating the suffering, but going forward now seeing and doing a new thing.
Labels: Beloved Community, Progressive Christian
