An interesting video from an interesting guy. Leadership cannot be abstracted from communities that make it possible. I love his challenge to habit. I think Stanely Hauerwas is right about that the church is an innovator and should continue to innovate in leadership.
Let me know what you think…
Also my friend and co-blogger JR Woodward has wrote a great paper entitled Re-Sketching the Church.
I’ve been reading a bit about Hauerwas lately – we’re doing Ethics next term at the School of Ministry and I’m swatting up before we start.
I love the way he talks of community. Messer, in his introduction to Christian Ethics, talks about Hauerwas and says this “[He] has often stressed that the church’s most important moral contribution to the society around it is not a distinctive and countercultural moral argument, but a countercultural way of life.” (Messer, N. 2006:135)
I love that quote.
In the video – I love at the end “What’s remarkable is not what the church should be… it’s that there is one”!
Yeah have you read Resident Aliens? It’s a flipping great book. I love the end and love that he doesn’t seem over glorify leadership but sees as part of a wider response to the love Jesus showed us.
Love that quote man. So true. Do you think that the church sometimes tries to countercultural for the sake of being countercultural? Because its “cool” and the “in thing”??
Good question but I think the answer is no… I guess maybe there are times with certain things where this could be the case… but I can’t think of any.
Although I do think sometimes the counter-cultural thing has the wrong focus so people use it to mean Christians shouldn’t drink or listen to certain music or whatever but really I think the main drive of our counter-culturalness should be more to do with bigger picture stuff – like where our priorities are (others rather than culture saying it’s all about me)
Did that make sense?