Great quotes both the organisation demanding nothing of you but integrity, and forgiving you when you fail, and your management style as curating space for people to work at their best. Fantastic.

and that quote is fab. might stick that on my door,

steve

But it’s probably best for a bar conversation.

Here’s to dreamers who gain the gift of hearing a voice beyond theirs

steve

I think it’s very sad that the stories which are publicised about emerging church / fresh expressions are most often those communities that are doing something exciting or clever; not those that are doing the hard work of listening first. Hopefully it’s not that the communities aren’t doing the listening, just that it’s not what’s being told about their story… but somehow i don’t get the sense that’s the case.

That might have changed in the last couple of years – I’m out of those church networks and don’t read much in the area any more – but it was one of the things that has made me very cynical about new ventures.

But it did make me thing – putting the quote beside being new to this land, what can I learn from the past, to take into how I see new things. For example, so much emerging church stuff assumes the new frontier, but it somehow seems so much richer if we decide to get there by listening first.

steve

i think the dream of new lands and new frontiers is real for many of us. In fact I think it’s an integral part of our being human. And if we need to be dreaming of new lands to be human, the question becomes how we honour the people who are in the place we arrive, before us.

but really, the new lands and new frontiers aren’t physical places in my world – and it’s certainly not how i read the quote.

No sure what that says about my bravery and my sense of discovery?