How should the members of subsystems respond when the hierarchy has forgotten its tasks: achieving coordination among and maintaining autonomy of subsystems? The leaders response?
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Resources:
Think in Systems, by Donella Meadows
Systems (wikipedia)
Why I Left the Institutional Church, by Frank Viola
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Sometimes we need stop tapping our self-important fingers and wait
Because it’s one of the coolest and truest bits I’ve seen and I because want to assure Brad he’s not alone: Everything's amazing, nobody's happy
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How do you recognize church when you see it?
Whether an organic church, with minimal structure and no real hierarchy, or an institutional church, with elaborate structure and clear hierarchy, what makes church Church?
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Only trust will suffice...
do we assume we’re safe because we’re Christians?
because we do the right things?
but God decides right:
loving trust is right—
knowing, not trying.
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Isaiah 28
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because we do the right things?
but God decides right:
loving trust is right—
knowing, not trying.
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Isaiah 28
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What does God want you to be doing while you're waiting for the end?
on the front-end he gives all we need.
on the back-end he gives his happiness.
in-between he gives challenge and correction.
why are we sitting?
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on the back-end he gives his happiness.
in-between he gives challenge and correction.
why are we sitting?
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Lime and Paprika
- Breakfast Pucks: Seasoned with Smoked Spanish Paprika, cumin, cocoa, and small bits of fried beef fat
- Salad: Spinach, green leaf lettuce, steamed Brussels sprouts, and small heirloom tomatoes, with pink salmon; seasoned with guacamole mousse (avocado, lime juice, lime zest, shallot, garlic, plum tomato, green jalapeno, and red jalapeno) and dusted with Smoked Spanish Paprika
- Savory: Tri tip marinated in lime juice, soy sauce, raw sugar, and Smoked Spanish Paprika; braised in a sauce of marinade and beef stock, served with scallion and cauliflower
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Looking for resources on communal spiritual formation
I’m gathering resources for my continuing study of communal spiritual formation:
Books I own
Books I’ve read and written about
Writings
witwaw writings
Suggestions?
Thoughts?
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Books I own
Books I’ve read and written about
Writings
witwaw writings
Suggestions?
Thoughts?
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Proper fear of God is the source of wisdom
Grace,
the freedom of it frees,
but sometimes
flesh takes advantage,
forgets fearful glory,
the terrifying splendor of God,
and runs to its own ways.
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the freedom of it frees,
but sometimes
flesh takes advantage,
forgets fearful glory,
the terrifying splendor of God,
and runs to its own ways.
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Today's Ecclesiological two cents: not elder-rule, but elder-led Head-rule
We need elders—note plural—who lead, stepping out first and living lives that look so much like Jesus that we cannot help but follow.
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Related
matthewmcdill.com: Implication for Elders' Authority from 1 Tim 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9
The Assembling of the Church: Ruling or Leading?
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matthewmcdill.com: Implication for Elders' Authority from 1 Tim 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9
The Assembling of the Church: Ruling or Leading?
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Everything changes when the King shows up.
woe on us for seeking other helpers.
woe on us for loving other gods.
woe on us for trusting flesh above Spirit.
then he comes…
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What if Jesus is over there while I'm sitting over here?
Satisfied with my vision of Jesus, I sit in my bible study boat,
wondering why I’m unsatisfied,
finally seeing a figure walking on the wave.
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wondering why I’m unsatisfied,
finally seeing a figure walking on the wave.
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Green, yellow, and red food
- Breakfast Pucks: standard oat, etc, with Hass avocado mixed in
- Salad: broccoli rabe, yellow grape tomato, celery, butter lettuce, and pink salmon, with dressing of roasted red bell pepper and sauteed shallots pureed in olive oil
- Savory: cauliflower, thin sliced rib eye steak, and roasted green Anaheim chilies, in pureed red kuri squash
Why would the Father send his Son to die? It seems unfair and wrong.
Let us wipe from our minds the fantastic notion that a selfish Father sent a poor unfortunate Son to clean up the Father's mess. That is NOT the case. The sovereign, just, loving God, who is Father, Son, and Spirit, one God, gave to clean up our mess. Those who are cut off from him have willfully rejected his gift. His offer remains.
Resource article: Divine Child Abuse
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Resource article: Divine Child Abuse
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In all of life, to God we cry, to God we sing
you who are teacher, helper, savior, and lord,
to you i run, cry, give praise. i'll not forget.
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the beginning of this soak
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to you i run, cry, give praise. i'll not forget.
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the beginning of this soak
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Why does it seem God is mean to some and nice to others?
Relationship with God determines the nature of one’s experience of God’s justice.
Those who trust experience bounty, while those who refuse to trust experience wrath.
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Those who trust experience bounty, while those who refuse to trust experience wrath.
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Mental Transformation--round two has begun
Monday, February 9, 2009, I started round two of Mental Transformation. In this round, I am listening through the TaNaKh and NT in one run.
This is part of who we are, but there is surely more:
- We carry his influence.
- Our life together is real life.
- We are his building, fit together and connected in him.
This morning, I prayed through Isaiah 24-27. I'm praying still...
God is for those who trust him, against those who don’t.
Our trust is weak; our love is shallow.
Our trust is weak; our love is shallow.
Train us to trust and love.
What is your boat?
Learning to see him, discerning his voice from all the other voices, yet all for naught if satisfied with security, comfort, and mediocrity.
Act already!
Act already!
Green food week
- Breakfast pucks: the usual oat, etc, with chopped scallions sauteed with malt
- Omelet: spinach and sunflower seeds in egg whites
- Salad: romaine, sunflower seeds, asparagus, scallions, pink salmon, and peas with dressing of pureed peas, sardine, and olive oil
- Savory: poblano peppers stuffed with peas, golden nugget squash, tomatillo, and scallions
Circumstances do not decide whom I trust
strong God, peace-giver, only righteous Savior,
though in pain I worship you and love your law.
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though in pain I worship you and love your law.
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"it seems to me that the new life should permeate and overlay the old." -Andrew B.
We are in a new reality, but our old ways of being are hardwired in our flesh.
How do we learn God’s ways of being?
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How do we learn God’s ways of being?
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Discipleship: a systems problem needing systems solutions?
What if it is not the elements of discipleship, but the connections and influences that are the basis of our lack in disciple-making?
What then?
What then?
Paprika, Matcha, and Red Bell Pepper Coulis?
- Breakfast Pucks*: the usual oat extravaganza, this time with sunflower seeds and seasoned with Smoked Spanish Paprika
- Cauliflower Omelet: cauliflower, tossed in matcha and olive oil and roasted to creamy goodness, set in egg white
- Salad: the usual assortment with a red bell pepper coulis-esque/avocado dressing
Are we ready to pursue our walk with God in new and fresh ways or levels of intensity?
We know we are stuck, yet we convince ourselves we are happy here. But we are not.
Growth takes recognition, decision, and trust in grace.
Growth takes recognition, decision, and trust in grace.
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