finding SOCIAL REVELATION in SECONDARY CULTURE!!

1. findingSOCIAL REVELATIONinSECONDARY CULTURE!!

2. The Cat & The Toaster

3. THE ECOLOGY OF LIFE

4. SPECIAL REVELATION • REDEMPTION • HOLY SPIRIT • CHURCH • KINGDOM • BIRTH AND MULTIPLICATION

5. NATURAL REVELATION • IMMUNITY SYSTEMS • INTERNAL LIFE • INTER-RELATED ORGANISMS • ECOLOGY • BIRTH

6. HORIZONTAL REDEMPTIVE ACTIVITY INTER-RELATES WITH VERTICAL REDEMPTIVE ACTIVITY PROCESS OF THE GOSPEL

7. PROCESS OF THE GOSPEL (POG) OBSERVATION POSITIVE REGARD MULTIPLICATION MEETING THE BASIC NEED COMMUNICATION MEETING PERCEIVED NEEDS

8. PROCESS OF THE GOSPEL OBSERVATION: CONSCIOUS OF FALLENNESS POSITIVE REGARD: SAFE ENVIRONMENT MULTIPLICATION:BIRTHING MEETING THE BASIC NEED:SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT COMMUNICATION:CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS CORPORATELY MEETING PERCEIVED NEEDS:SUBSTITUTION OF A BETTER WAY

11. SOCIAL REVELATION IS… • the living system CATdesign; • learned from natural or special revelation; • operating in a social system.

12. VISIBLE or LESS VISIBLE? • PRIMARY CULTURE, often nurtured in the created world, tends to make social revelation very… • visible! • SECONDARY CULTURE, nurtured in a constructed world, makes it… • less visible!

13. SPECIAL REVELATION USES SOCIAL REVELATION • AS A VEHICLE FOR CONVEYING ITS TRUTH Holy Bible The train of social revelation

14. SOCIAL REVELATIONIN PRIMARY CULTURE • HORIZONTAL REDEMPTION • JOINT DECISION-MAKING • INTER-RELATED NEED-SATISFACTION • FITS ECOLOGY OF NATURAL WORLD • PART OF A LINE OF PAST AND FUTURE PEOPLE

15. SOCIAL REVELATION IN SECONDARY CULTURE OBSCURED BY SYNTHETIC REVELATION • MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVE • SPECIFICITY TRAINING • TOP-DOWN LEADERSHIP • DEPARTMENTALIZATION • MANUFACTURING OF PRODUCTS

16. NATURAL REVELATION SYNTHETIC REVELATION MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVE SPECIFICITY TRAINING TOP-DOWN LEADERSHIP DEPARTMENTALIZATION MANUFACTURING OF PRODUCTS CONTRASTING: IMMUNITY SYSTEMS INTERNAL LIFE INTER-RELATED ORGANISMS ECOLOGY BIRTH

17. MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVE(MBO) ANALYSIS REVIEW OBJECTIVE GOALS TACTICS STRATEGY

18. COMPARING “POG” with “MBO” OBSERVATION ANALYSIS MULTIPLI-CATION POSITIVE REGARD REVIEW OBJECTIVE MEETING THE BASIC NEED COMMUNI-CATION TACTICS GOALS STRATEGY MEETING PERCEIVED NEEDS

19. SYNTHETIC REVELATION DEFINITION: • MECHANISTIC/TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO LIFE, THAT… • TELL US HOW OUR WORLD WORKS--OUR MENTAL MODELS.

20. Without….HORIZONTAL REDEMPTIVE ACTIVITY, our organizations become… Fuel: outside life support (programs/$...) Lower ideals for special revelation converts No social revelation No horizontal redemptive activity Conflict with special revelation Infected! Problems encountered in organizational operations Decline of system Use non-revelation to run the system Too many rules become barriers to vital operations Develop rules to control behavior

21. SYNTHETIC REVELATION PRODUCES: DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS

22. THEREFORE: • SYNTHETIC IDEAS ARE APPROPRIATE; • SYNTHETIC REVELATION IS NOT!

23. HOW DO THESE TWO FIT TOGETHER? THE CAT AND TOASTER CHART SHOWS US!

24. CAT AND TOASTER CHARTA: Cat Potential B: Toaster Potential Need Results Plan Do $ Balance Sheet Long-term $100,000.00 X +

25. SYSTEMS THINKING a model of … SOCIAL REVELATION in: SECONDARY CULTURE:

26. The Five Disciplines ofSYSTEMS THINKING MENTAL MODELS SHARED VISION TEAM LEARNING SYSTEMS THINKING PERSONAL MASTERY

27. A CONTRAST:

28. ANOTHER CONTRAST

29. CONCLUSION THE QUIET REVIVAL USED THREE ELEMENTS: • PRIMARY SOCIAL REVELATION • SECONDARY SOCIAL REVELATION • SPECIAL REVELATION

30. Evangelism Stages of Sustained Revival Church Growth Church Planting “Orchard” Planting City-Wide Region and World Multiple City – New Testament

31. UNEASY ALLIANCEOF • THE QUIET REVIVAL and… • DYSFUNCTIONALITY IN THE BROADER SYSTEM OF CHRISTIANITY will they clash ?

32. Our VISION: • NURTURE THE CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE QUIET REVIVAL • THROUGH THE INTERACTION OF SOCIAL AND SPECIAL REVELATION

33. Combining…SOCIAL AND SPECIAL REVELATIONIN MINISTRY • AVOID SYNTHETIC REVELATION • IDENTIFY AND USE LIVING SYSTEM MENTAL MODELS