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Process Theology

“95% of individuals fail to live their lives with sufficient sense of drama. They do not wake up and realize the critical nature of their lives until it is often too late”.

“Fearful of the issues to begin with, such people may never be able to resolve them….The less fearful a person is of such issues, the earlier she will be able to meet them— even anticipate them— and the more easily she will be able to do the psycho spiritual work necessary to resolve them.”

“Utopia cannot be instituted by an individual or small deviant group; it can only be instituted through our largest, best-organized everyday institutions. Only such large organizations have the structure, the wherewithal, and and the motive to provide and demand of their employees the continuing on-the-job training required.”

“Church is not where people’s lives are on the line, but their workplace is. The decisions here count. Here of necessity people may be willing to spend the time and effort to ensure that their decisions are the right ones. It is in business that they may be willing to pay the price of community.”

“Church is not where people’s lives are on the line, but their workplace is.

“You do not manage grace; you let it manage you. They are skills of attention combined with surrender, of emptiness and in an organizational setting, the skills of community.@

“If you build community and let God into your organization, on the outside it will look pretty much the same. On the inside it will all be different.”

“Any attempt at radical social engineering that does not incorporate God, that does not welcome grace and leave vast room for divine intervention will utterly fail.”

“Over the course of my life, I gradually discerned a pattern of statistically improbably events with beneficial outcomes not only in my own day-to-day existence but also that of the people with whom I worked closely

“…integration of task and process is not something that can ever be done with consistent perfection.”

“There is a profound tendency for a group that is deep into working on a task to continue at it long after its work has become ineffective.”

“Community building for an ongoing group is by necessity an ongoing process. You don’t just build a community; you rebuild it and rebuild it and rebuild it for as long as you have reason to continue to be together.”

“The devious individual is either expelled or quits just short of being found out. After such a rift the person usually appears happier and more functional because he has more room in which to maneuver.