Here's another great reason for us to be an all-play community:
"Jesus exercises the only kind of leadership that can evoke authentic community--a leadership that risks failure (the crucifixion) by making space for others to act. When a leader takes up all the space and preempts all the action, he or she may make something happen, but that something is not community."
"When a leader is willing to trust the abundance that people can generate together, willing to take risk of inviting people to share from that abundance, then and only then may true community emerge."
- Parker Palmer
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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I think it's pretty amazing that Jesus looked at his little bunch of unbelieving guys and said, "yeah, this will do." God comes to earth, gives them one-on-one mentoring for a couple years, leading by example, miracles, and they still didn't really know what's going on. It doesn't really sound like success to me.
Mark 16:12-15
Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country.
These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.
Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
And then he took off, evidently believing that they were going to figure it out.
I probably wouldn't have put my money on them changing the world...
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