<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;">Pastor Bill has bad case of what they yaked about in a weekend course on something called a 20th century revolution in something or another that I can't remember ,,,,oh yea!!...lucidity!!<BR><BR>-David Walters<BR><BR>--- wsalmon@cox.net wrote:<BR><BR>From: "William Salmon" <wsalmon@cox.net><BR>To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><BR>Subject: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Can the church change?<BR>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:27:04 -0500<BR><BR>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> Can the institutional church change? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> My quick answer is "Yes," the church can change direction immediately! It happens at those times in history that reveals a new paradigm: we believe we live in a World of Squares only to discover there is a World of Rounds. We are living in such times in the death of the Modern Scientific Worldview and the rise of the Postmodern Intuitive Worldview. (Review the Social Process Triangles!) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> In fact, the change already has occurred within the United Methodist Church; it is now being practiced under the leadership of those born after <STRONG>1985,</STRONG> and among a few people--like those in the Order--who are the old Awakened Squares who have lived on the point between the No Longer and the Not Yet. All the others will need to die off! No hurry, though. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> Yes, many of us are getting Rounder but less Square. OK?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> Such is my life. However, it is exciting to live during the Great (GREAT) Turn. At least it can't be said that at this Great Turn the Awakened are shoveling shit in Louisiana. No, it is in Kansas where we shovel the shit of a dead metaphor under the leadership of the Great Asshole himself--Gov. BROWNback. Go figure. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> (Sorry? Not really!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> Pastor Bill </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title="dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Colleague Dialogue</A> ; <A title="oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Hmm, the Methodists weigh in,sounds like the "council of a lifetime"</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>In the midst of the turmoil the church is going through this is one of the most hopeful pieces I've seen. The primary question for me is, can a church that has been so embedded in institutional structures for so long realistically be expected to reverse course and again become a movemental presence?</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."<BR>-Martin Buber (adapted)<BR></DIV>
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