It's just change
Posted by tom | Oct 29, 2009Today I went with a group from Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ to hear Gordon MacDonald present on The Changing Face of Ministry: Engaging All Ages in the Mission of the Church. I'll share some quotes over the next couple of days and post the notes when they're "ready to go."
In the past, the time-span of human change was considerably longer than that of a single human life. Thus, mankind was trained to adapt itself to fixed conditions. But today our training must prepare individuals to face a novelty of conditions. -- Alfred North Whitehead (1931)
Note: After outlining some significant post-1450 change cycles, MacDonald commented, You don’t talk about change cycles anymore, it’s just change. Still thinking about that one. Do you think it's all change?
