The temptation of such a leader is to impose some order on the chaos, but chaos is in a fashion already ordered and highly resistant to the alternative order a single leader expects – and the people who hire him/her expect – to impose.

This should give us comfort because we know the character of the author of change.

This should sober us greatly because we know the kind of risks that our God takes, and the kind of suffering he permits in the mission. God does so with integrity only because he does not exclude himself from this suffering.

A piece that I didn’t get a chance to write yesterday was about hearing God speak. Every day only affords so much time for disposable blogging. We likely have as little idea what the Spirit is doing as the disciples of Jesus had knowing what God was doing while he hung naked on a cross. This is how we are, radical recipients of grace, not drivers of the story.

What do you think Gina? I’d love to hear YOU reflect more on the Spirit in adaptive change? I talk to much anyway.

Ponder the amount of change demonstrated in Acts. At first, the Church was so sure that Jesus would return in days or weeks that they were willing to give away their retirement savings to the poor. As time passed, the Church began to make longer and longer range plans.

After the Kokhba rebellion the Jews realized the Temple was not going to be rebuilt and revised their theology by concluding that the atonement sacrifices were only an external representation of an internal repentance, same as Baptists consider baptism. Further, Rabbinical Judaism has given up their martyr complex and decided that the greatest commandment is the preservation of human life.

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