Month: April 2006
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Are We Too Disconnected?
The issue of people, as in Christians, being disconnected seems to be a hot one. Barna, in his book Revolution, has caused many to worry that he was encouraging people to disconnect from "the church" or from meaningful community altogether. I recently received an email from someone who is seeking consistent community with others but…
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New Science and the Emerging Church
Rhonda Servine sent me a paper she wrote for Fuller Seminary on Wheatley’s book Leadership and the New Science. I posted a couple of times on this book here and here. Rhonda was kind enough to allow me to post her paper here as downloads (see below). The paper is worth the read. Here is…
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Structures that Fit the Moment
I will attempt to share some additional– insights garnered from Margaret Wheatley’s book, Leadership and the New Science. She does a wonderful job of describing how living systems–and their structures–require a constant cycle of disintegration in order to move into the natural process of growth and self-renewal. Our tendency, looking at the world from a…
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Church Planting “Keys”
There’s a fun article (at Next-Wave Ezine) that takes off from a typical list of "10 Keys to Effective Church Planting." Here are a few excerpts starting with #4 of the 10 keys: 4. Determine your target audience. I guess on this one I would just say- Look in the mirror. Expect that the people…
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A Book on Leadership?
I gave up reading books on leadership ages ago. But… I made a new friend who is studying missions at Azusa and reading a book for a course there that he assured me would be interesting: Leadership and the New Science. He was right. This is not even close to your typical "develop your leadership"…