Learned to "double clutch" this week. Double clutching may not only apply to 18 speed tractor trailers. You have to gentily tap the clutch to take the tractor out of one gear, then release the clutch to synchronize the transmission with your road speed, then quickly clutch again to make the up shift gear. (both clutches, exiting and entering the new gear all have to be done in about 1 second or you loose synchronization) Also, to down shift, you first clutch to take the tractor trailer out of the higher gear, release the clutch and 'flush' the transmission ( rev engine up to 1400 to synchronize) then tap the clutch and before the RPM drops below 1200, put the stick into the down shift gear...... it's mechanically impossible to enter the new gear until you do this......down shifting is really a three stage process each gear.....
Looking back on life and service, I'd have to say most of the difficult issues with me (and the tribe I was running with) were the result of not truly leaving one gear, 'fushing' the old, before trying to shift to another gear. Never really fully leaving the old one......but trying to ram in a new gear. To start new, you first have to purge (flush) the old, or it's just more coasting, as you mechanically can't move into the new gear without it. We just keep clutching, grinding at the gears, making lots of efforts, grinding 'noise' as we fish for a new gear. However, we will never get the new gear because the transmission is still synchronized to the old gear.
We spend most of our time building on the old, tweaking here, grinding there, clutching seriously, but making no change, because we are not willing to give up the old gear we are synchronized with.
It's a normal institutional thing..... It applies to all the institutions I have been apart of. I have seen it in churches too (not unique to church), from Christian Churches, Churches of Christ, Baptists, Pentecostals, to Presbyterians. We are all talking change, but all it ends up being is a little tweaking, no real gear change at all.
From the hippest latest church, to the small church bringing in 'reform' and 'new vision'. I've sat at their tables during a myriad of meetings, and every word indicates they don't know how (or are not willing) to flush to drop the old gear. Tweaking, and reshuffling is the order of the day. If you have contact with many other churches you see how little we change, actually changes anything. However, churches basically look, sound, act, and do service the SAME' on Sunday. Don't fool yourself......your not doing anything new, radical, nor different, and in most cases, not even anything 'better' than other places. Nothing wrong with what is being done. God bless them all. But few really change any gear. To change gears you have to flush first. I've met few, on three continents, who would. But the few who have, I walk with them, and I call them my mentors and friends. Flush....for heavens sake flush.......to synchronize, and get into that new gear
Looking back on life and service, I'd have to say most of the difficult issues with me (and the tribe I was running with) were the result of not truly leaving one gear, 'fushing' the old, before trying to shift to another gear. Never really fully leaving the old one......but trying to ram in a new gear. To start new, you first have to purge (flush) the old, or it's just more coasting, as you mechanically can't move into the new gear without it. We just keep clutching, grinding at the gears, making lots of efforts, grinding 'noise' as we fish for a new gear. However, we will never get the new gear because the transmission is still synchronized to the old gear.
We spend most of our time building on the old, tweaking here, grinding there, clutching seriously, but making no change, because we are not willing to give up the old gear we are synchronized with.
It's a normal institutional thing..... It applies to all the institutions I have been apart of. I have seen it in churches too (not unique to church), from Christian Churches, Churches of Christ, Baptists, Pentecostals, to Presbyterians. We are all talking change, but all it ends up being is a little tweaking, no real gear change at all.
From the hippest latest church, to the small church bringing in 'reform' and 'new vision'. I've sat at their tables during a myriad of meetings, and every word indicates they don't know how (or are not willing) to flush to drop the old gear. Tweaking, and reshuffling is the order of the day. If you have contact with many other churches you see how little we change, actually changes anything. However, churches basically look, sound, act, and do service the SAME' on Sunday. Don't fool yourself......your not doing anything new, radical, nor different, and in most cases, not even anything 'better' than other places. Nothing wrong with what is being done. God bless them all. But few really change any gear. To change gears you have to flush first. I've met few, on three continents, who would. But the few who have, I walk with them, and I call them my mentors and friends. Flush....for heavens sake flush.......to synchronize, and get into that new gear
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