Kim Hammond online
One of my good friends and director of forge – victoria has started a group blog with another member of his faith community which is called the junction.
Here is a snippit of one of his first posts.
“I encourage you to dream what it would mean for you to truly be the hands and feet of Jesus to your friends and family and to the community around you.
What makes a missional community?It is our job to help ordinary Aussies find a home in the kingdom of God. I still believe passionately this comes when we journey with people and have walked with them through life.
Who is God calling you to walk with?”
Check out the speed of life blog here
January 17th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
I would have thought our responsibility is to help “Aussies” self-actualise.
January 17th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Are the kingdom of God and self-actualising the same thing?
January 18th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Greenman what do you mean by self actualise?
What I mean is the church is not THE answer but we as followers of Jesus journey with people and are living sign posts piont to Christ, flawed and all, sometimes we are His hands, serving, or His ear, listening to peoples stories. We dont come from a postion of power but from a place that recognizes we have experinced Grace and need to pay it forward.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Kim, let me say that if someone does not understand the meaning of self actualise, they are even less likely to understand your paragraph about people being living signposts to Christ. That was completely opaque.
Self actualisation was at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Model (a management theoretical model) to describe a workplace that could enable employees to fulfil their own unique potential. The heirarchy started with basic survival needs of physical and emotional well-being and layered higher level needs of influence and personal development culminating in self-actualisation. This is a well known model covered in basic management courses. It is understood and well discussed and may have some pratical usefulness.
Is this anything like your Christ thingo model?
May 4th, 2006 at 1:33 am
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