Edward de Bono, no theologian, but definitely the leading specialist in creative learning processes, remarks that if there is a known and successful cure for an illness, patients generally prefer the doctor to use the known cure rather than seek to design a better one. Yet there may be much better cures to be found. He rightly asks how are we ever to find a better cure if at each critical moment we always opt for the traditional treatment? Think about this in relation to our usual ways of solving our problems. Do we not constantly default to previous patterns and ways of tackling issues of theology, spirituality, and church? To quote another Bono, this time from the band U2; seems like we are “…stuck in a moment and (we) can’t get out of it.” It is little wonder that our pre-commitments to the Christendom mode of church and thinking restricts us to past successes and gives us no real solutions for the future. We always seem to default to its preconceived answers. Genuine learning and development is at best a risky process but without journey and risk there can be no progress.
Monday, 8 January 2007
The following came to me from ...
The following came to me from the blog of Alan Hirsch. I thought I'd include it because it lends itself to serious comment and reflection
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Mark.Mackay@health.sa.gov.au> said:
> de Bono has highlighted "safety" - we know it works, who's to say the
> "better" one will work or be safe! you go first ..., no after you ... oh,
> didn't work, well I have the original thanks. A few days later ... I'm so
> sorry, please accept my condolences - he really should have stuck the
> tried and proven!
>
> Does this mean that unless pushed into the unknown, there is no gain. No.
> We have inventors and entrepeuners who pick up and sell what the
> inventors do (sometimes one in the same). fortunately, there's always
> some pushing. However, pushing when the train is full or pushing when the
> train has almost been emptied of its passengers doesn't lead to the same
> result - only those left on the train will feel the push. some may not
> like that and unless the train stops long enough and looks good enough -
> there won't be any newcomers ... they'll wait for the "good ol' safe one"
>
> (of course - it presumes they're still thinking and not just buying or
> idolising)
Post a Comment