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<div> <font size="2">As our old friend Paul said a long time ago, "</font> the old things passed away; behold, new things have come<font size="2">." Is that why?<br>
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<div>Dick,
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<div class="yiv9818014401">I just wanted to affirm your response to my rather glib use of the word “failure”. All of creation, through a sensitive and response capacity, experiments with new forms. They are then constantly refined in the creative process over eons of time to what became lasting. So do we humans. We evolve through experimentation, learn from that experience and adjust. So we certainly were trying to be responsive to a vision of, (HDP, for example), what the new local needs to look like. We may not have succeeded but we learned. And it is that learning (and experimenting) that needs to be shared with other awakened one; and the time is short. You are exactly right: “failure is what drives life”. One thing clear to me is the new paradigm <b class="yiv9818014401">is</b> here. The question is how fast that new paradigm becomes the operating paradigm. Telling the New Story is the new evangelism. </div>
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<div class="yiv9818014401">Thanks!!</div>
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<div class="yiv9818014401">On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:18, Richard Alton via Dialogue <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv9818014401" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv9818014401">Great question Jim: I did a lot of replicating and would not describe any of them as failures or for that matter the 3 religious houses and for that matter a life time of church renewal- all have been awesome experiences, although would agree if you are saying the basic nature of life is failure....failure is what drives life<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">Dick<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">Sent from my iPhone<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9818014401" type="cite">On Aug 30, 2019, at 1:15 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv9818014401" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">Jack: you said in a recent email . . .<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9818014401" type="cite"><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">We failed at replication, but now we know why.<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"></blockquote><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9818014401" type="cite">We failed at expanding Religious Houses, but now we know why.<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"></blockquote><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9818014401" type="cite">We failed at renewing the historical Christian church, but now we know why.<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"></blockquote><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv9818014401" type="cite">I tried hunting around the archive website and looked a bit around <a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv9818014401" target="_blank" href="http://wedgeblade.net">wedgeblade.net</a>. Is there a document somewhere that outlines these “why’s”?<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"></blockquote><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">_______________________________________________<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">Dialogue mailing list<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv9818014401" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">Dialogue mailing list<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" class="yiv9818014401" ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net<br class="yiv9818014401" clear="none"></div>
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