3. Where are the young people?
• 77% are interested in a church like the United
Church
– Open and questioning spirituality
– Social justice
– Works with others (faiths, …)
– Hospitable to diversity
4. People are seeking authentic
community…
• Pics of authentic people seeking authentic
community in a fragmenting world - collage
Isn’t that what the church provides?
5. Huge Filters on reality
We use
.0000005
of the info
and call it
REALITY!
17. Organizational Theory
From Machine to Organism
1. Things -> Relationships
2. Structures -> Process (flow)
3. Command/Control -> Empowerment
18. EPIC
E - xperiential
P - articipative
I - mage Rich
C - onnectional
Editor's Notes
Contemporary Isaac Newton – Universe was governed by certain immutable laws – It ran ‘automata’
All truth must verifiable by objective observation, and reliably verifiable, repeatable
basically, that the universe was a machine!
For organizational theorists like Margaret Wheatly or Brenda Zimmerman the death of a cultural paradigm, progress and its mechanistic world view are dying in the light of a subjective, participative, mystical universe the calls for three shifts in organizational focus: