Research Assembly Summer 70
I. Signal Happenings
1. Spirit lectures 6. Ecclesiola construct
2, Ur celebrations 7. Completing the overwhelming task
3. Spiritual odyssey 8. Unveiling the electric grid
4. Spirit conversations 9. Week I-II time design
5. Songs and rituals l0. House church/plenary
II. Insights on the following:
1. The dynamic of corporateness flows from
the depths of a group's realization of their common symbolic life.
This fundamental group of the spirit dimension enables individuals
to accept their solidarity with others in responsibility to a
corporate task. In organizing for this task the community discovers
the power of its wisdom as the individuals interact with each
other.
2. The spirit life underlies all secularity
and struggles to bring to self-consciousness through the manifestation
of full humanness in the inherent community. This ascent occurs
through enabling structures such as NRM charts, odysseys, spirit
lectures and conversations, songs and rituals. These constructs
offer an opportunity for individual decision in relationship to
the spirit struggle which, when made, enables corporateness.
3. Building tactical systems requires a style
oscillating between nonchalance and seriousness in a struggle
for both comprehensiveness and particularity. Contentless sociology
is learned which is applicable to any specific situation. The
enabling structures provide channels for honoring all wisdom and
releasing individual creativity, thus placing imperatives on participants,
III. Comments on the following:
1. Spirit Life
a. The daily odyssey structure brings self-consciousness to the individual spirit struggle and sustains the congregation in common mission.
b. A new sense of time design frees families to become missional, develops a symbolic commonality and captures time segments on weekends.
c. Intentional celebration provides discontinuity,
gives permission to celebrate, and enables a global context to
every possible celebration structure of the Local Church.
2. Tactics
a. Week I workshop methodology develops an ongoing decision-making process which creates a clearly defined missional vision and holds the comprehensive context.
b. P.S.U.'s enable participation of any member in intense yet nonchalant short term, corporate preliminary decision making relative to specific problems.
c. Plenary sessions for the congregation allow
all groups to return their work to the whole body, see their participation
in the total mission, and celebrate the accomplishment.
3. Corporateness
a. The ecclesiola format enables a congregation to experiment with depth human care, serious study, and corporate planning.
b. The collegium meeting lays out the comprehensive vision of the mission for the whole congregation thereby allowing smaller groups to participate in that mission
c. The team/unit construct, smallest structure
of care, nurture, and accountability for tasks, concretely demonstrates
love for the entire congregation.
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