"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Exhausted Before Reaching Enemy Lines!

""The real trouble is not in the fact that the church is too rich, but that it has become heavily institutionalized, with a crushing investment and maintenance....... It is saddled with a plan and program beyond its means, so that it is absorbed in problems of supply and preoccupied with survival. The inertia of the machine is such that the financial allocations, both the legalities, the channels of organization, the attitudes of mind, are all set in the direction of continuing and enhancing the status quo. If one wants to pursue a course which cuts across these channels, then most of one's energies are exhausted before one never reaches the enemy lines."
John A.T. Robinson.
(Finding Organic Church. Frank Viola. David C Cook. 2010. Page 171)
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