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Chapman 3 movements
we need a theology of




institutions, movements. and
                Communities
congregational grief,
  shame, and blame

clergy grief, shame, and
  blame


grace for all!
Three possible futures:

   Continuing contraction

   Conservative resurgence

   Pregnancy
Three possible futures:
   Continuing contraction
       - Shrinking numbers
       - Wrinkling members
       - Low retention
       - Low evangelization
       - Constrained leadership
       - Secure finances
Three possible futures:

   Conservative resurgence
       - Immigration fears
       - Western domination
       - Terrorism fears/revenge
       - Playing to bases
       - New alliances (global,
          ecumenical)
Three possible futures:
   Pregnancy
       - Theological reformation
       - Missional reorientation
       - Post-national, post-partisan
          identity/ethos
       - Spiritual-social movement
       (Peace, planet, poverty)
       - New alliances (global,
          ecumenical)
we need a theology of




institutions, movements. and
                Communities
Communities

Families, individuals, and
 organizations linked to a
 common environment,
 collaborating for the
 common good.
Institutions:

Organizations which conserve
      the gains made by past
           social movements.
Social Movements

Organizations which make
 proposals or demands to
 current institutions to make
 progress towards new
 gains.
Both movements and
               institutions...

Organize for their purpose
Need one another
Are frustrated with one
 another
Benefit or harm communities
Without movements ...

Institutions stagnate ...



         Without institutions ...

Movements evaporate ...
Some movements
successfully inject their values
 into the institutions they
 challenge

             Other movements
create their own institutions,
  or pass away
Vital movements
call people to passionate,
 sacrificial personal
 commitment

        Sustainable institutions
create loyalty across
  generations through
  evocative rituals & traditions
Chapman 3 movements
Chapman 3 movements
Parker Palmer’s 4 stages of
              social change

1. Divided no more
2. Communities of
  congruence
3. Going public
4. Alternative Rewards
From Greg Leffel
Faith Seeking Action: Mission
 and Social Movements
Movements unite people to create or resist change. Through
them, individuals seek a common voice to challenge, social,
political, economic and cultural powers; movements, in fact,
multiply the power of individual action through their unique
form of collective, non-institutional power. (47-48)

Social movements are non-institutionally organized human
collectives, that put meaningful ideas in play in public
settings, that actively confront existing powers through the
strength of their numbers and the influence of their ideas,
and that grow in size and power by inspiring others to act, in
order to create or resist change (48)

A movement is “a segmented, usually polycephalus cellular
organization composed of unites networked by various
personal, structural, and ideological ties. (50)
It takes collective, non-institutional
(or prophetic) power to bring change
to institutions.

               You can’t change the
        center/inside/priestly without
    proposals and pressure from the
          margins/outside/prophetic.
Movements are diagnostic, prognostic,
and motivational (51)

- They say what’s wrong
- They say what’s needed
- They motivate and mobilize for
concerted action.
Movements are context dependent.
In certain periods, fundamental contradictions
     in a society’s core understanding of itself
       create the possibility of widespread and
                socially disruptive change. (52)

Movements exploit opportunity:
1. An active interest among elites in changing
the political structure
2. Conflicts or corruption within elites
3. Events that weaken established social
control (war, disaster, economic collapse)
Leffel’s 6 Characteristics of Vibrant Social
                                Movements
1. Opportunity Structure

Current restraining realities ...

             in tension with ...

                   emerging opportunities.
Opportunities:
- Problems needing to be solved
- Elites who hold power, resist change or
promote negative change
- Fissures, Problems among elites that
make the status quo vulnerable
- Values of the movement in conflict with
values of elites
- Potential advocates and allies in
academic, civil society, arts, church,
government, business, science, etc.
2. Rhetorical Framing/Conceptual
                                     Architecture
Movement leaders have to make a conceptual and verbal
case for their movement by answering questions like these:

How do we redefine reality?
How do we disrupt or change current realities?
How do we name our grievances? Articulate our positive
vision for the way forward?
How do we motivate and sustain dissatisfaction with the
status quo, and affection for our shared vision?
How do we justify our aims in terms of 5 lines of moral
argument (Jonathan Haidt): justice, compassion, tradition,
loyalty, and purity?
How is the movement liberating? (liberal)
How is the movement conserving? (conservative)
3. Protest (messaging) strategy
Raising awareness, attracting growing numbers of
participants
Campaigns, tactics, deployments, making demands, public
relations, sustaining conflict, forcing a crisis, managing
internal tensions, managing stigmatization, showing results,
maintaining momentum, not overreacting, defining
acceptable level of disruption,

- Gaining attention - demonstrations, sit-ins, teach-ins, etc.
- Building Networks of Participants and Allies
- Wisely Identifying and Engaging Opponents

   Movements must be convergent (creating broad, vigorous
   alliances) and insurgent (confronting real problems upheld
                by elites and the systems that privilege them).
4. Mobilization Structures & Strategies
- Authority and Decision-Making Structures
- Transparency/Confidentiality, Communication Plans
- Leadership development, Relational Development, Conflict
Management Plans
- Coalition development
- Resource, Technology, Finance Mobilization and
Management
- Evangelism, recruitment, induction
- Renewal and Increase of commitment
- Awareness of levels of commitment (core, activists,
supporters, listeners, opposition, indirect impact, unaware
4. Mobilization Structures & Strategies
Jesus and the 12
- Intense time of modeling, relationship building and vision
sharing
- Contagious passion
- Periodic sending and returning
- Final sending/Succession insured
- Warnings of expected trials, failures, conflicts
- “Polycephalic” structure - connection without control
- Self-organizing units
- Welcoming of new leaders (Paul)
- Reproducible expansion
- Both individual agency and group agency (Paul, Philip,
Antioch)
- Both planning and spontaneity
5. Movement Culture

      “Movements are about changing a
     society’s lifeway; a movement itself
 becomes an experimental field where a
new way of life can be, to some degree,
experienced and where the movement’s
  ideals, values and common vision are
                     put to the test.” (61)
5. Movement culture
- Emotional vibe (fun, serious, angry,
playful, heady, gutsy, etc.)
- Feel of spaces, physical and digital
- Songs, slogans
- Virtues, values, moral ethos
- Dress, Graphics,
- Nicknames, terminology
- Emotion, motivation, motion
6. Participant Biography
How does involvement benefit - or harm -
participants? How does the movement promote
emotional and social sustainability ... avoiding
burnout, squabbles, etc.
How does it contribute to personal formation:
- character
- attitudes
- knowledge
- recovery from trauma
- relationships
- renewal
What do participants gain from being involved?
1. Opportunity Structure
2. Rhetorical framing
3. Protest (messaging) strategy
4. Mobilization strategy
5. Movement culture
6. Participant Biography
Jesus says the kingdom of God is like gardening (an
organic movement) not warfare (institutional action): It
spreads through seeds ... sown into systems to grow.
                                           The seeds of the message.

              The seeds of people who personally embody the message.

           The seeds of communities who socially embody the message.
Jesus seizes the opportunity structure
provided by conflicted elites
(Pharisees/Sadducees;
Herodians/Zealots) and struggling
masses (Galilee/Judea)
He provides rhetorical framing on hillsides, in
houses, on retreats, in public teach-ins, in debates,
through parables, through rituals and practices.
He repeats key themes - commonwealth of God,
life to the full, life of the ages, liberation - rooted
in dynamic tension with tradition.
His protest (messaging) strategy includes public
demonstrations (healings & miracles), teach-ins
(sermon on mount), civil disobedience (turning
tables), guerilla theatre (exorcisms), festivals
(feasts & feedings), naming evil (woes), naming
heroes (blessings).
He develops a mobilization strategy based
on 3, 12, 70, and multitudes. He entrusts
freely with responsibility and expresses high
confidence in his agents (greater things shall
you do ...)
He associates his movement culture
with love, joy, justice, risk, hope,
creativity, courage, service,
willingness to suffer, nonviolence.
He provides his disciples challenge, rest,
retreat, encouragement, recovery after
failures. They testify that their participant
biographies have been forever changed for
the better.
we need a theology of




Communities, institutions and
                 movements
What spiritual movement is trying to be born
among us today?

What are its demands/proposals?

What role might we play in its emergence?
a new spiritual
       identity
Not
Militant Religious Right
Institutional Religious Left
Not
Militant Religious Right
Institutional Religious Left
                                      But
 Evangelical passion mixed with progressive
   social vision of common good, “beloved
                               community”
Not
Conservative anti-science bias
Old Liberal anti-spiritual bias
Not
Conservative anti-science bias
Old Liberal anti-spiritual bias

                                       But
      Both pro-learning and pro-spirituality
Not
Strong Hostile Identity
Weak Benevolent Identity
                in relation to other faiths ...
Not
Strong Hostile Identity
Weak Benevolent Identity
                    in relation to other faiths ...
                                             But
      Strong, theologically-rooted benevolent
  spiritual identity as neighbors, peacemakers
Not
Jesus as weapon
Jesus as embarrassment
Not
Jesus as weapon
Jesus as embarrassment

                                       But
       Jesus as bringer of good news of the
                            kingdom of God
A lot depends on the emergence


Liturgical         Social Action




 Evangelical
                of Charismaticidentity.
                   this new
Movements move with the
 Holy Spirit.
Do not merely try to bring others to
  where you are, as wonderful as that
  place might be.
But do not leave them where they are
  either.
       Instead, go with them to a place
   neither you nor they have ever been
                                before.
                      Fr. Vincent Donovan (adapted)
Where do you see the
   most momentum?

Where do you see the
  biggest obstacles?

What do you “hear” in
         your heart?
Chapman 3 movements
Christian futures:
Mission and Social
            Justice
What is the question taking
    The Human
             shape inside the
                        Conventional View

                    God created the world as perfect,
                                                            Emerging View

                                                            God created the world as good, but
    Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as




“spiritual but not religious?”
    is the story that
    we find
    ourselves in?
                    ancestors, Adam and Eve, did
                    not maintain the absolute
                    perfection demanded by God,
                    God has irrevocably determined
                    that the entire universe and all it
                    contains will be destroyed, and
                    the souls of all human beings –
                                                            groups – have rebelled against God and
                                                            filled the world with evil and injustice
                                                            like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                                                            humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                                                            but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                                                            confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                                                            wandering farther and farther into
                    except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,
                    exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                    punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                    in hell.1
    Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
    Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
    questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
    Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
    answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                    go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his
                    can God help individuals be             contemporaries: living under domination
                    happy and successful until then?        by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                            various competing sects.
    Jesus’ message:     Jesus says, in essence, “If you     Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
    How did Jesus       want to be among those              groups – including your own religious
    respond to the      specifically qualified to escape    leaders - are leading you farther and
    crisis?             being forever punished for your     farther astray. I have been sent by God
                        sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves
                        your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                        that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                        the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                        punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                        believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                        heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                        banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                        good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                            now.”3 This is the good news.

    1
      Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
    plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
    2
      This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
    Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
    instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
“Can you accept me where I am
    and gently, wisely lead me
        The Human
                            Conventional View

                        God created the world as perfect,
                                                                Emerging View

                                                                God created the world as good, but
        Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as




          to a better way of life
        is the story that
        we find
        ourselves in?
                        ancestors, Adam and Eve, did
                        not maintain the absolute
                        perfection demanded by God,
                        God has irrevocably determined
                        that the entire universe and all it
                        contains will be destroyed, and
                        the souls of all human beings –
                                                                groups – have rebelled against God and
                                                                filled the world with evil and injustice
                                                                like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                                                                humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                                                                but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                                                                confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                                                                wandering farther and farther into
                        except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,




         so I can play my part
                        exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                        punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                        in hell.1
        Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
        Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
        questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
        Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
        answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its




   in building a better world?”
                        go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his
                        can God help individuals be             contemporaries: living under domination
                        happy and successful until then?        by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                                various competing sects.
        Jesus’ message:     Jesus says, in essence, “If you     Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
        How did Jesus       want to be among those              groups – including your own religious
        respond to the      specifically qualified to escape    leaders - are leading you farther and
        crisis?             being forever punished for your     farther astray. I have been sent by God
                            sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves
                            your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                            that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                            the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                            punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                            believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                            heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                            banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                            good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                                now.”3 This is the good news.

        1
          Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
        plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
        2
          This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
        Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
        instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
spiritual emptiness corrupt
   leadership poverty disease
      ignorance hunger and
 malnutrition climate change
                   emergencies

conflicts Financial Instability
Water/Sanitation subsidies/trade
barriers population/ migration
       GLOBAL
       communicable diseases
        FOUR

             education
     governance/corruption
  hunger education        gender
 inequality      child mortality
          maternal health
  environmental sustainability
   ethnic conflicts terrorism
  weapons of mass destruction
   organized crime networks
 energy demands clean water
        population growth
        authoritarian regimes
Heat



Solar Energy
                              Prosperity

               Resources
                                                  Waste
                           Equity      Security

                           Societal Machine


         The Ecosystem



                           Framing Story
Compiling and integrating the
lists of global emergencies...
       The Human
                           Conventional View

                       God created the world as perfect,
                                                               Emerging View

                                                               God created the world as good, but
       Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as




1. Planet
       is the story that
                       ancestors, Adam and Eve, did            groups – have rebelled against God and
       we find         not maintain the absolute               filled the world with evil and injustice
       ourselves in?   perfection demanded by God,             like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                       God has irrevocably determined          humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                       that the entire universe and all it     but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                       contains will be destroyed, and         confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                       the souls of all human beings –         wandering farther and farther into
                       except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,




2. Poverty
                       exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                       punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                       in hell.1
       Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
       Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
       questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
       Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
       answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                       go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his




3. Peace
       Jesus’ message:
       How did Jesus
       respond to the
       crisis?
                       can God help individuals be
                       happy and successful until then?

                           Jesus says, in essence, “If you
                           want to be among those
                           specifically qualified to escape
                           being forever punished for your
                                                               contemporaries: living under domination
                                                               by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                               various competing sects.
                                                               Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
                                                               groups – including your own religious
                                                               leaders - are leading you farther and
                                                               farther astray. I have been sent by God
                           sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves




4. Religion
                           your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                           that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                           the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                           punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                           believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                           heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                           banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                           good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                               now.”3 This is the good news.

       1
         Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
       plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
       2
         This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
       Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
       instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
How do Presbyterian followers
           of Christ engage their
        The Human
                            Conventional View

                        God created the world as perfect,
                                                                Emerging View

                                                                God created the world as good, but
        Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as




   communities with each crisis?
        is the story that
                        ancestors, Adam and Eve, did            groups – have rebelled against God and
        we find         not maintain the absolute               filled the world with evil and injustice
        ourselves in?   perfection demanded by God,             like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                        God has irrevocably determined          humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                        that the entire universe and all it     but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                        contains will be destroyed, and         confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                        the souls of all human beings –         wandering farther and farther into
                        except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,




1. Planet
                        exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                        punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                        in hell.1
        Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
        Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
        questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
        Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
        answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                        go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his




2. Poverty
        Jesus’ message:
        How did Jesus
        respond to the
        crisis?
                        can God help individuals be
                        happy and successful until then?

                            Jesus says, in essence, “If you
                            want to be among those
                            specifically qualified to escape
                            being forever punished for your
                                                                contemporaries: living under domination
                                                                by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                                various competing sects.
                                                                Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
                                                                groups – including your own religious
                                                                leaders - are leading you farther and
                                                                farther astray. I have been sent by God
                            sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves




3. Peace
                            your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                            that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                            the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                            punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                            believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                            heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                            banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                            good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                                now.”3 This is the good news.



4. Religion
        1



        2
          Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
        plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
          This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
        Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
        instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
Planet ...
                             Conventional View                   Emerging View

         The Human       God created the world as perfect,       God created the world as good, but
         Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as
         is the story that
                         ancestors, Adam and Eve, did            groups – have rebelled against God and
         we find         not maintain the absolute               filled the world with evil and injustice
         ourselves in?   perfection demanded by God,             like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                         God has irrevocably determined          humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                         that the entire universe and all it     but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                         contains will be destroyed, and         confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                         the souls of all human beings –         wandering farther and farther into
                         except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,
                         exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                         punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                         in hell.1
         Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
         Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
         questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
         Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
         answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                         go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his
                         can God help individuals be             contemporaries: living under domination
                         happy and successful until then?        by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                                 various competing sects.
         Jesus’ message:     Jesus says, in essence, “If you     Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
         How did Jesus       want to be among those              groups – including your own religious
         respond to the      specifically qualified to escape    leaders - are leading you farther and
         crisis?             being forever punished for your     farther astray. I have been sent by God
                             sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves
                             your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                             that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                             the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                             punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                             believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                             heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                             banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                             good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                                 now.”3 This is the good news.

         1
           Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
         plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
         2
           This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
         Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
         instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
Poverty ...
                            Conventional View                   Emerging View

        The Human       God created the world as perfect,       God created the world as good, but
        Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as
        is the story that
                        ancestors, Adam and Eve, did            groups – have rebelled against God and
        we find         not maintain the absolute               filled the world with evil and injustice
        ourselves in?   perfection demanded by God,             like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                        God has irrevocably determined          humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                        that the entire universe and all it     but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                        contains will be destroyed, and         confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                        the souls of all human beings –         wandering farther and farther into
                        except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,
                        exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                        punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                        in hell.1
        Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
        Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
        questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
        Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
        answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                        go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his
                        can God help individuals be             contemporaries: living under domination
                        happy and successful until then?        by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                                various competing sects.
        Jesus’ message:     Jesus says, in essence, “If you     Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
        How did Jesus       want to be among those              groups – including your own religious
        respond to the      specifically qualified to escape    leaders - are leading you farther and
        crisis?             being forever punished for your     farther astray. I have been sent by God
                            sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves
                            your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                            that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                            the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                            punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                            believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                            heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                            banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                            good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                                now.”3 This is the good news.

        1
          Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
        plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
        2
          This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
        Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
        instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
Peace
                            Conventional View                   Emerging View

        The Human       God created the world as perfect,       God created the world as good, but
        Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as
        is the story that
                        ancestors, Adam and Eve, did            groups – have rebelled against God and
        we find         not maintain the absolute               filled the world with evil and injustice
        ourselves in?   perfection demanded by God,             like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                        God has irrevocably determined          humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                        that the entire universe and all it     but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                        contains will be destroyed, and         confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                        the souls of all human beings –         wandering farther and farther into
                        except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,
                        exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                        punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                        in hell.1
        Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
        Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
        questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
        Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
        answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                        go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his
                        can God help individuals be             contemporaries: living under domination
                        happy and successful until then?        by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                                various competing sects.
        Jesus’ message:     Jesus says, in essence, “If you     Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
        How did Jesus       want to be among those              groups – including your own religious
        respond to the      specifically qualified to escape    leaders - are leading you farther and
        crisis?             being forever punished for your     farther astray. I have been sent by God
                            sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves
                            your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                            that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                            the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                            punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                            believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                            heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                            banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                            good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                                now.”3 This is the good news.

        1
          Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
        plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
        2
          This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
        Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
        instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
Religion
                           Conventional View                   Emerging View

       The Human       God created the world as perfect,       God created the world as good, but
       Situation: What but because our primal                  human beings – as individuals, and as
       is the story that
                       ancestors, Adam and Eve, did            groups – have rebelled against God and
       we find         not maintain the absolute               filled the world with evil and injustice
       ourselves in?   perfection demanded by God,             like a terrible disease. God wants to save
                       God has irrevocably determined          humanity and heal it from its sickness,
                       that the entire universe and all it     but humanity is hopelessly lost and
                       contains will be destroyed, and         confused, like sheep without a shepherd,
                       the souls of all human beings –         wandering farther and farther into
                       except for those specifically           lostness and danger. Left to themselves,
                       exempted – will be forever              human beings will spiral downward in
                       punished for their imperfection         sickness and evil.
                       in hell.1
       Basic           Since everyone is doomed to             Since the human race is in such desperate
       Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these       trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this
       questions did   questions: how can individuals          question: what must be done about the
       Jesus come to   be saved from eternal                   mess we’re in? The mess refers both to
       answer?         punishment in hell and instead          the general human condition and its
                       go to heaven after they die? How        specific outworking among his
                       can God help individuals be             contemporaries: living under domination
                       happy and successful until then?        by the Roman empire, and divided into
                                                               various competing sects.
       Jesus’ message:     Jesus says, in essence, “If you     Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and
       How did Jesus       want to be among those              groups – including your own religious
       respond to the      specifically qualified to escape    leaders - are leading you farther and
       crisis?             being forever punished for your     farther astray. I have been sent by God
                           sins in hell, you must repent of    with this good news – that God loves
                           your individual sins and believe    humanity, even in its lostness and sin.
                           that my Father punished me on       God graciously invites everyone and
                           the cross so He won’t have to       anyone to question and reject what they
                           punish you in hell. Only if you     have been told and instead follow a new
                           believe this will you go to         path. Trust me and become my disciple,
                           heaven when everyone else is        and you will be transformed, and you will
                           banished to hell.”2 This is the     participate in the transformation of the
                           good news.                          world, which is possible, beginning right
                                                               now.”3 This is the good news.

       1
         Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too,
       plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious.
       2
         This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman
       Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its
       instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
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Ivan Illich (Austrian
       former priest,
 philosopher, social
  critic, 1926-2002)
Neither [violent] revolution nor
[political] reformation can ultimately
change a society, rather you must tell
a new powerful tale, one so
persuasive that it sweeps away the
old myths and becomes the preferred
story …
Chapman 3 movements

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Chapman 3 movements

  • 2. we need a theology of institutions, movements. and Communities
  • 3. congregational grief, shame, and blame clergy grief, shame, and blame grace for all!
  • 4. Three possible futures: Continuing contraction Conservative resurgence Pregnancy
  • 5. Three possible futures: Continuing contraction - Shrinking numbers - Wrinkling members - Low retention - Low evangelization - Constrained leadership - Secure finances
  • 6. Three possible futures: Conservative resurgence - Immigration fears - Western domination - Terrorism fears/revenge - Playing to bases - New alliances (global, ecumenical)
  • 7. Three possible futures: Pregnancy - Theological reformation - Missional reorientation - Post-national, post-partisan identity/ethos - Spiritual-social movement (Peace, planet, poverty) - New alliances (global, ecumenical)
  • 8. we need a theology of institutions, movements. and Communities
  • 9. Communities Families, individuals, and organizations linked to a common environment, collaborating for the common good.
  • 10. Institutions: Organizations which conserve the gains made by past social movements.
  • 11. Social Movements Organizations which make proposals or demands to current institutions to make progress towards new gains.
  • 12. Both movements and institutions... Organize for their purpose Need one another Are frustrated with one another Benefit or harm communities
  • 13. Without movements ... Institutions stagnate ... Without institutions ... Movements evaporate ...
  • 14. Some movements successfully inject their values into the institutions they challenge Other movements create their own institutions, or pass away
  • 15. Vital movements call people to passionate, sacrificial personal commitment Sustainable institutions create loyalty across generations through evocative rituals & traditions
  • 18. Parker Palmer’s 4 stages of social change 1. Divided no more 2. Communities of congruence 3. Going public 4. Alternative Rewards
  • 19. From Greg Leffel Faith Seeking Action: Mission and Social Movements
  • 20. Movements unite people to create or resist change. Through them, individuals seek a common voice to challenge, social, political, economic and cultural powers; movements, in fact, multiply the power of individual action through their unique form of collective, non-institutional power. (47-48) Social movements are non-institutionally organized human collectives, that put meaningful ideas in play in public settings, that actively confront existing powers through the strength of their numbers and the influence of their ideas, and that grow in size and power by inspiring others to act, in order to create or resist change (48) A movement is “a segmented, usually polycephalus cellular organization composed of unites networked by various personal, structural, and ideological ties. (50)
  • 21. It takes collective, non-institutional (or prophetic) power to bring change to institutions. You can’t change the center/inside/priestly without proposals and pressure from the margins/outside/prophetic.
  • 22. Movements are diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational (51) - They say what’s wrong - They say what’s needed - They motivate and mobilize for concerted action.
  • 23. Movements are context dependent. In certain periods, fundamental contradictions in a society’s core understanding of itself create the possibility of widespread and socially disruptive change. (52) Movements exploit opportunity: 1. An active interest among elites in changing the political structure 2. Conflicts or corruption within elites 3. Events that weaken established social control (war, disaster, economic collapse)
  • 24. Leffel’s 6 Characteristics of Vibrant Social Movements
  • 25. 1. Opportunity Structure Current restraining realities ... in tension with ... emerging opportunities.
  • 26. Opportunities: - Problems needing to be solved - Elites who hold power, resist change or promote negative change - Fissures, Problems among elites that make the status quo vulnerable - Values of the movement in conflict with values of elites - Potential advocates and allies in academic, civil society, arts, church, government, business, science, etc.
  • 27. 2. Rhetorical Framing/Conceptual Architecture Movement leaders have to make a conceptual and verbal case for their movement by answering questions like these: How do we redefine reality? How do we disrupt or change current realities? How do we name our grievances? Articulate our positive vision for the way forward? How do we motivate and sustain dissatisfaction with the status quo, and affection for our shared vision? How do we justify our aims in terms of 5 lines of moral argument (Jonathan Haidt): justice, compassion, tradition, loyalty, and purity? How is the movement liberating? (liberal) How is the movement conserving? (conservative)
  • 28. 3. Protest (messaging) strategy Raising awareness, attracting growing numbers of participants Campaigns, tactics, deployments, making demands, public relations, sustaining conflict, forcing a crisis, managing internal tensions, managing stigmatization, showing results, maintaining momentum, not overreacting, defining acceptable level of disruption, - Gaining attention - demonstrations, sit-ins, teach-ins, etc. - Building Networks of Participants and Allies - Wisely Identifying and Engaging Opponents Movements must be convergent (creating broad, vigorous alliances) and insurgent (confronting real problems upheld by elites and the systems that privilege them).
  • 29. 4. Mobilization Structures & Strategies - Authority and Decision-Making Structures - Transparency/Confidentiality, Communication Plans - Leadership development, Relational Development, Conflict Management Plans - Coalition development - Resource, Technology, Finance Mobilization and Management - Evangelism, recruitment, induction - Renewal and Increase of commitment - Awareness of levels of commitment (core, activists, supporters, listeners, opposition, indirect impact, unaware
  • 30. 4. Mobilization Structures & Strategies Jesus and the 12 - Intense time of modeling, relationship building and vision sharing - Contagious passion - Periodic sending and returning - Final sending/Succession insured - Warnings of expected trials, failures, conflicts - “Polycephalic” structure - connection without control - Self-organizing units - Welcoming of new leaders (Paul) - Reproducible expansion - Both individual agency and group agency (Paul, Philip, Antioch) - Both planning and spontaneity
  • 31. 5. Movement Culture “Movements are about changing a society’s lifeway; a movement itself becomes an experimental field where a new way of life can be, to some degree, experienced and where the movement’s ideals, values and common vision are put to the test.” (61)
  • 32. 5. Movement culture - Emotional vibe (fun, serious, angry, playful, heady, gutsy, etc.) - Feel of spaces, physical and digital - Songs, slogans - Virtues, values, moral ethos - Dress, Graphics, - Nicknames, terminology - Emotion, motivation, motion
  • 33. 6. Participant Biography How does involvement benefit - or harm - participants? How does the movement promote emotional and social sustainability ... avoiding burnout, squabbles, etc. How does it contribute to personal formation: - character - attitudes - knowledge - recovery from trauma - relationships - renewal What do participants gain from being involved?
  • 34. 1. Opportunity Structure 2. Rhetorical framing 3. Protest (messaging) strategy 4. Mobilization strategy 5. Movement culture 6. Participant Biography
  • 35. Jesus says the kingdom of God is like gardening (an organic movement) not warfare (institutional action): It spreads through seeds ... sown into systems to grow. The seeds of the message. The seeds of people who personally embody the message. The seeds of communities who socially embody the message.
  • 36. Jesus seizes the opportunity structure provided by conflicted elites (Pharisees/Sadducees; Herodians/Zealots) and struggling masses (Galilee/Judea)
  • 37. He provides rhetorical framing on hillsides, in houses, on retreats, in public teach-ins, in debates, through parables, through rituals and practices. He repeats key themes - commonwealth of God, life to the full, life of the ages, liberation - rooted in dynamic tension with tradition.
  • 38. His protest (messaging) strategy includes public demonstrations (healings & miracles), teach-ins (sermon on mount), civil disobedience (turning tables), guerilla theatre (exorcisms), festivals (feasts & feedings), naming evil (woes), naming heroes (blessings).
  • 39. He develops a mobilization strategy based on 3, 12, 70, and multitudes. He entrusts freely with responsibility and expresses high confidence in his agents (greater things shall you do ...)
  • 40. He associates his movement culture with love, joy, justice, risk, hope, creativity, courage, service, willingness to suffer, nonviolence.
  • 41. He provides his disciples challenge, rest, retreat, encouragement, recovery after failures. They testify that their participant biographies have been forever changed for the better.
  • 42. we need a theology of Communities, institutions and movements
  • 43. What spiritual movement is trying to be born among us today? What are its demands/proposals? What role might we play in its emergence?
  • 44. a new spiritual identity
  • 46. Not Militant Religious Right Institutional Religious Left But Evangelical passion mixed with progressive social vision of common good, “beloved community”
  • 47. Not Conservative anti-science bias Old Liberal anti-spiritual bias
  • 48. Not Conservative anti-science bias Old Liberal anti-spiritual bias But Both pro-learning and pro-spirituality
  • 49. Not Strong Hostile Identity Weak Benevolent Identity in relation to other faiths ...
  • 50. Not Strong Hostile Identity Weak Benevolent Identity in relation to other faiths ... But Strong, theologically-rooted benevolent spiritual identity as neighbors, peacemakers
  • 51. Not Jesus as weapon Jesus as embarrassment
  • 52. Not Jesus as weapon Jesus as embarrassment But Jesus as bringer of good news of the kingdom of God
  • 53. A lot depends on the emergence Liturgical Social Action Evangelical of Charismaticidentity. this new
  • 54. Movements move with the Holy Spirit.
  • 55. Do not merely try to bring others to where you are, as wonderful as that place might be. But do not leave them where they are either. Instead, go with them to a place neither you nor they have ever been before. Fr. Vincent Donovan (adapted)
  • 56. Where do you see the most momentum? Where do you see the biggest obstacles? What do you “hear” in your heart?
  • 59. What is the question taking The Human shape inside the Conventional View God created the world as perfect, Emerging View God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as “spiritual but not religious?” is the story that we find ourselves in? ancestors, Adam and Eve, did not maintain the absolute perfection demanded by God, God has irrevocably determined that the entire universe and all it contains will be destroyed, and the souls of all human beings – groups – have rebelled against God and filled the world with evil and injustice like a terrible disease. God wants to save humanity and heal it from its sickness, but humanity is hopelessly lost and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his can God help individuals be contemporaries: living under domination happy and successful until then? by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus’ message: Jesus says, in essence, “If you Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and How did Jesus want to be among those groups – including your own religious respond to the specifically qualified to escape leaders - are leading you farther and crisis? being forever punished for your farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 60. “Can you accept me where I am and gently, wisely lead me The Human Conventional View God created the world as perfect, Emerging View God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as to a better way of life is the story that we find ourselves in? ancestors, Adam and Eve, did not maintain the absolute perfection demanded by God, God has irrevocably determined that the entire universe and all it contains will be destroyed, and the souls of all human beings – groups – have rebelled against God and filled the world with evil and injustice like a terrible disease. God wants to save humanity and heal it from its sickness, but humanity is hopelessly lost and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, so I can play my part exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its in building a better world?” go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his can God help individuals be contemporaries: living under domination happy and successful until then? by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus’ message: Jesus says, in essence, “If you Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and How did Jesus want to be among those groups – including your own religious respond to the specifically qualified to escape leaders - are leading you farther and crisis? being forever punished for your farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 61. spiritual emptiness corrupt leadership poverty disease ignorance hunger and malnutrition climate change emergencies conflicts Financial Instability Water/Sanitation subsidies/trade barriers population/ migration GLOBAL communicable diseases FOUR education governance/corruption hunger education gender inequality child mortality maternal health environmental sustainability ethnic conflicts terrorism weapons of mass destruction organized crime networks energy demands clean water population growth authoritarian regimes
  • 62. Heat Solar Energy Prosperity Resources Waste Equity Security Societal Machine The Ecosystem Framing Story
  • 63. Compiling and integrating the lists of global emergencies... The Human Conventional View God created the world as perfect, Emerging View God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as 1. Planet is the story that ancestors, Adam and Eve, did groups – have rebelled against God and we find not maintain the absolute filled the world with evil and injustice ourselves in? perfection demanded by God, like a terrible disease. God wants to save God has irrevocably determined humanity and heal it from its sickness, that the entire universe and all it but humanity is hopelessly lost and contains will be destroyed, and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, the souls of all human beings – wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, 2. Poverty exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his 3. Peace Jesus’ message: How did Jesus respond to the crisis? can God help individuals be happy and successful until then? Jesus says, in essence, “If you want to be among those specifically qualified to escape being forever punished for your contemporaries: living under domination by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and groups – including your own religious leaders - are leading you farther and farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves 4. Religion your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 64. How do Presbyterian followers of Christ engage their The Human Conventional View God created the world as perfect, Emerging View God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as communities with each crisis? is the story that ancestors, Adam and Eve, did groups – have rebelled against God and we find not maintain the absolute filled the world with evil and injustice ourselves in? perfection demanded by God, like a terrible disease. God wants to save God has irrevocably determined humanity and heal it from its sickness, that the entire universe and all it but humanity is hopelessly lost and contains will be destroyed, and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, the souls of all human beings – wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, 1. Planet exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his 2. Poverty Jesus’ message: How did Jesus respond to the crisis? can God help individuals be happy and successful until then? Jesus says, in essence, “If you want to be among those specifically qualified to escape being forever punished for your contemporaries: living under domination by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and groups – including your own religious leaders - are leading you farther and farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves 3. Peace your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 4. Religion 1 2 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 65. Planet ... Conventional View Emerging View The Human God created the world as perfect, God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as is the story that ancestors, Adam and Eve, did groups – have rebelled against God and we find not maintain the absolute filled the world with evil and injustice ourselves in? perfection demanded by God, like a terrible disease. God wants to save God has irrevocably determined humanity and heal it from its sickness, that the entire universe and all it but humanity is hopelessly lost and contains will be destroyed, and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, the souls of all human beings – wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his can God help individuals be contemporaries: living under domination happy and successful until then? by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus’ message: Jesus says, in essence, “If you Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and How did Jesus want to be among those groups – including your own religious respond to the specifically qualified to escape leaders - are leading you farther and crisis? being forever punished for your farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 66. Poverty ... Conventional View Emerging View The Human God created the world as perfect, God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as is the story that ancestors, Adam and Eve, did groups – have rebelled against God and we find not maintain the absolute filled the world with evil and injustice ourselves in? perfection demanded by God, like a terrible disease. God wants to save God has irrevocably determined humanity and heal it from its sickness, that the entire universe and all it but humanity is hopelessly lost and contains will be destroyed, and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, the souls of all human beings – wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his can God help individuals be contemporaries: living under domination happy and successful until then? by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus’ message: Jesus says, in essence, “If you Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and How did Jesus want to be among those groups – including your own religious respond to the specifically qualified to escape leaders - are leading you farther and crisis? being forever punished for your farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 67. Peace Conventional View Emerging View The Human God created the world as perfect, God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as is the story that ancestors, Adam and Eve, did groups – have rebelled against God and we find not maintain the absolute filled the world with evil and injustice ourselves in? perfection demanded by God, like a terrible disease. God wants to save God has irrevocably determined humanity and heal it from its sickness, that the entire universe and all it but humanity is hopelessly lost and contains will be destroyed, and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, the souls of all human beings – wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his can God help individuals be contemporaries: living under domination happy and successful until then? by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus’ message: Jesus says, in essence, “If you Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and How did Jesus want to be among those groups – including your own religious respond to the specifically qualified to escape leaders - are leading you farther and crisis? being forever punished for your farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 68. Religion Conventional View Emerging View The Human God created the world as perfect, God created the world as good, but Situation: What but because our primal human beings – as individuals, and as is the story that ancestors, Adam and Eve, did groups – have rebelled against God and we find not maintain the absolute filled the world with evil and injustice ourselves in? perfection demanded by God, like a terrible disease. God wants to save God has irrevocably determined humanity and heal it from its sickness, that the entire universe and all it but humanity is hopelessly lost and contains will be destroyed, and confused, like sheep without a shepherd, the souls of all human beings – wandering farther and farther into except for those specifically lostness and danger. Left to themselves, exempted – will be forever human beings will spiral downward in punished for their imperfection sickness and evil. in hell.1 Basic Since everyone is doomed to Since the human race is in such desperate Questions: What hell, Jesus seeks to answer these trouble, Jesus seeks to answer this questions did questions: how can individuals question: what must be done about the Jesus come to be saved from eternal mess we’re in? The mess refers both to answer? punishment in hell and instead the general human condition and its go to heaven after they die? How specific outworking among his can God help individuals be contemporaries: living under domination happy and successful until then? by the Roman empire, and divided into various competing sects. Jesus’ message: Jesus says, in essence, “If you Jesus says, in essence, “Other people and How did Jesus want to be among those groups – including your own religious respond to the specifically qualified to escape leaders - are leading you farther and crisis? being forever punished for your farther astray. I have been sent by God sins in hell, you must repent of with this good news – that God loves your individual sins and believe humanity, even in its lostness and sin. that my Father punished me on God graciously invites everyone and the cross so He won’t have to anyone to question and reject what they punish you in hell. Only if you have been told and instead follow a new believe this will you go to path. Trust me and become my disciple, heaven when everyone else is and you will be transformed, and you will banished to hell.”2 This is the participate in the transformation of the good news. world, which is possible, beginning right now.”3 This is the good news. 1 Of course, there are many modern western non-religious ontologies and framing stories too, plus Eastern ontologies and framing stories – both religious and irreligious. 2 This reflects a Calvinistic Evangelical protestant version of the message. The popular Roman Catholic version might say, “You must believe in the teachings of the church and follow its instructions, especially those regarding sacraments.” The popular mainline or liberal Protestant
  • 69. Heat Solar Energy Prosperity Resources Waste Equity Security Societal Machine The Ecosystem Framing Story
  • 70. QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Ivan Illich (Austrian former priest, philosopher, social critic, 1926-2002)
  • 71. Neither [violent] revolution nor [political] reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story …