The church as I knew it will not be the church as we knew it in the years ahead. I’m wondering what this will look like while at the same time being more and more certain that this new church will be visible in the marketplace more than the traditional sacred space
DEI and ESG are the proof of the right thing being ignored by the best business minds so the worst business minds (government) hi-jack the right thing and turn it into the wrong thing. The turning of the tide on this matter back to the better leadership of business will be a long, hard slog as radical elements (on both sides) have taken the issue and run with it with their viewpoints.
Just like my COVID experiences this is “leadership fulcrum” issue…the conversation is dominated by extreme actions and reactions. It is up to the best leaders to see beyond the smoke and haze and chart a path that best benefits humanity – capitalism at it’s best.
The politics of social media and sound-bites is killing us; and will kill us if we do not find ourselves into a renaissance of thinking leaders who think long and hard before typing, texting and posting. Great thinkers and thought leaders will emerge (I hope); but cutting through the noise will be hard.
The extremes are islands of safety where an absence of critical thinking takes place. It takes a brave new group to get off the islands and see what is in the ocean of opportunity and challenge.
I have a PLS friend who has quite the social media presence who says, “Stay in the deep end.” Not sure all he means by it but this is true. The shallow end has a lot of noise and a lot of people but the real adventure is in the deep end – and most of life is played in the shallows where so many actually believe they are really deep when they just stick their head underwater.
We need a lot more responding instead of reacting. That means we need thinkers and meditators. Critical, long term thinkers who take very few things at first glance or first blush. This will border on cynicism and negativism but it is really a matter of staying in the deep end and seeking to understand.