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Hyphens

The document discusses the concept of "the hyphen" in relation to churches and pastors. It explores how churches have transitioned from premodern to modern to postmodern eras and how pastors navigate their roles as employees of institutions, members of communities, and participants in movements for change. It emphasizes that both institutions and movements are needed for progress, as institutions conserve past gains and movements propose new ways forward. A key challenge is how pastors can live within this tension of the hyphen.

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The hyphen - in the church - in the pastor - healing the hyphen - living the hyphen
The hyphen - in the church
The hyphen - in the church
5 Christ Great Fall of Roman Empire Great Schism Great Reformation Great Emergence 500-Year Rummage Sale
6 The Great Emergence Angli-mergent Presby-mergent Metho-mergent Menno-mergent etc.
my take on emergence
11
“normal” incremental evolutionary change: slow, predictable, gradual epochal, profound, revolutionary change: fast, unpredictable, sudden
2500+ BC Prehistoric World
2500+ BC Prehistoric World
2500 BC - 500 AD 500 BC 1 AD 500 AD Ancient World Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman empires
2500 BC - 500 AD 500 BC 1 AD 500 AD Ancient World Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman empires
2500 BC - 500 AD 500 BC 1 AD 500 AD Ancient World 500 AD - 1500 AD Medieval World 1500 AD Printing/Gutenberg Caravel/Transport Guns/Infantry/Artillery New Economy Copernicus/Galileo Reformation/Luther
2500 BC - 500 AD 500 BC 1 AD 500 AD Ancient World 500 AD - 1500 AD Medieval World 1500 AD Printing/Gutenberg Caravel/Transport Guns/Infantry/Artillery Copernicus/Galileo Reformation/Luther
‘The new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th’earth, and no man’s wit Can well direct him where to look for it. Tis all in peeces, all cohaerance gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne, are things forgot, For everyman alone thinkes he hath got To be a Phoenix, and there can bee None of that kinde, of which he is, but hee. John Donne, 1611 (1572-1631)
The great chain of being
Is an “unchained” universe a liberated universe or a fragmented universe, cast adrift?
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Consider the poetic metaphor: LAWS OF NATURE … The universe becomes a courtroom, God the lawgiver and king/judge … Natural Law and Revealed Law
The 10 Spheres are gone … The Great Chain is gone … But order has returned: Invisible and universal rules, principles, laws, patterns, standards, systems. The divinely sanctioned system has come. The Divine Right of Kings and popes is
1500 AD - 2000 AD 1500 AD 1750 AD 2000 AD Modern World 1950 AD - ??? Postmodern World Medieval World Print/Screen/Internet New Science New Weapons New Transportation New Economy New Spirituality
1500 AD - 2000 AD 1500 AD 1750 AD 2000 AD Modern World 1950 AD - ??? Postmodern World Medieval World Print/Screen/Internet New Science New Weapons New Transportation New Economy New Spirituality
Themes of Postmodernity 1. Conquest, Control, Progress … Conservation 2. Mechanistic/reductionist … holistic/systemic 3. Analytical … post-analytical 4. Secular/scientific … spiritual/scientific 5. Objective … Intersubjective 6. Critical … Post-critical 7. Organization … alliance, network
Themes of Postmodernity 8. Individualism … community, tradition, tribe 9. Protestant/polemical … Post-protestant 10. Consumerism … Sustainability 11. Print literacy … layered fluency 12. National … global/migratory 13. Ideology ... narrative
Consider that we live in at least three worlds. Pre-modern world Non-modern world Modern world Emerging world today
Old L a t e T r a n s i t i o n Paradigm/ Model E a r l y T r a n s i t i o n
Old L a t e T r a n s i t i o n Paradigm/ Model E a r l y T r a n s i t i o n
Old L a t e T r a n s i t i o n Paradigm/ Model E a r l y T r a n s i t i o n New Paradigm/ Model
Old L a t e T r a n s i t i o n Paradigm/ Model E a r l y T r a n s i t i o n New Paradigm/ Model
Liberal Conservative
Intentional/Missional/ Purpose-driven Liberal Conservative Conventional/Institutional/Tradition-driven
Intentional/Missional/ Purpose-driven Modern/ Colonial Liberal Conservative Emerging/ Post-colonial Conventional/Institutional
Paradigm Shifts Almost always the [people] who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighboring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?... here the foundations of physics have started moving; and ... this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.” Werner Heisenberg
“It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built.” Albert Einstein On his paradigm shift
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography
Modern Crisis Medieval church Conservative way Liberal way from Nancey Murphy, “Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism”
Modern Crisis Medieval church “evangelical” “mainline” from Nancey Murphy, “Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism”
Increasing Polarization Medieval church Modern Crisis Conservative way Liberal way
Increasing Polarization Medieval church Modern Crisis Conservative way Liberal way
The Post-Liberal, Post-Evangelical Convergence Medieval church Modern Crisis Conservative way Liberal way Postmodern Interruption
Modern Crisis Conservative way Liberal way A Generous Orthodoxy? A Missional Church?
Modern Crisis Conservative way Liberal way
Four* Stage Emergence Schema Simplicity - dualism Complexity - pragmatism Perplexity - relativism Harmony - integral/non-dualism
Four* Stage Emergence Schema Infancy- Egocentrism Simplicity Complexity Perplexity Harmony
The hyphen - in the church premodern-modern-postmodern retrenching-transitioning-exploring polarizing - converging simplicity-complexity complexity-perplexity perplexity-harmony
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The hyphen - in the church - in the pastor - healing the hyphen - living the hyphen
The hyphen - in the pastor
The hyphen - in the pastor employee of an institution member of a community participant in a movement
MOVEMENT
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY MOVEMENT INSTITUTION
we need a theology of institutions, movements. and Communities
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
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 (Context Awareness) 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 ...)