Positive Assets

One of the difficult things in thinking about church today is determining what are good qualities to have and which are actually getting in the way. In the past we have looked at size, money, stability and experience as high value qualities. Now we are beginning to see near chaotic complexity (I would be happy to simply use "chaos" here but so many people don't like it I've tried to pc it.), rapid flexibility & adaptibility, and being on the brink of instability as qualities that are actually closer to reality and therefore more usable.

Unfortunately thinking this way gives us the feeling that we are out of control and we don't like that. But as Annie Dillard writes, "We are most asleep at the switch when we think we control any switches at all." You'd think a good look at God's creation would cure us of this.