Initial thesis: We live in a culture today, that the missional context of our world has changed. To engage missionally in our culture requires a form and posture of leadership which our systems are not ready to engage or release. Intuition, artistic, prophetic, poetic, these are what are needed, and these are what seminaries, institutions are woefully unprepared to release and/or even name these.
We have got to create new structures that name and release these things.
We recognize that as we engage as humans in creation, there are different ways of knowing – there are multiple ways/avenues of knowing. The acknowledgment of multiple intelligences – we are in a reaction to dominant ways of knowing that have been big in the past.
(Showed music video for the Black Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get it Started”)
Tim’s story: the struggle to live in the tensions.
Biases: one of the invitations we have is that our communities need to be theology-generating communities. Theologies are always the result of a dialogue between a community of people living life together and a culture of which they are apart. Theology is in response to context.
There are no sacred systems, theologically, as we engage missionally with our culture. We are perceiving a new way of experiencing and articulating reality, in the context of our community.
Systems thinking – individuals exist within systems – and they exert incredible influence over the way we live and perceive the nature of life to be.
Check this book: Richard Florida: The Rise of the Creative Class.
The Rise of Agriculture
The Advent of Industrial Capitalism: the factory
The Organizational Age: large-scale institutions
The Creative Age: new economic systems explicitly designed to foster and harness human creativity
Emergence Theory: The existence of a coherent pattern that arises out of interactions among simple objects within a commingling of bottom-up and top-down processes.