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I recently sat on a two hour flight next to a guy who initially was a bit miffed when I asked if I could sit next to the window where his ticket read because I have great difficulty getting up and down on planes (my damaged legs and all). This tall guy reluctantly agreed. I am no little person myself. As we got airborne I engaged him in conversation and the mood shifted. He was wearing the shirt of his company. I have been a big fan of their culture, their founder-CEO, his amazing pioneering spirit that is rare these days. I asked him a number of burning questions I had about their inner workings. In short, we were engaged in conversation quickly. As we spoke he mentioned he had recently moved to Tampa from Ohio… specifically Cincinnati. I asked if he had ever heard of something called the Vineyard. He said “Everyone in Cincinnati knows the Vineyard.” I told him Janie and I got the ball rolling with all the Vineyard churches in Cincinnati a bit over twenty years ago. He was unbelieving. He said, “I don’t think so – nobody started the Vineyard – it has just always been there…” I laughed! “Well, everything has a tendency to start if you think about it… Look up my name in Google.” He started to look at me differently – like I was “them” and he was “us.” I’m used to that look. I quelled that quickly by telling him my story – how starting at age seven when my mom very rarely drug me to a certain Lutheran church I would tell her “Please don’t take me back there – that guy who speaks is a flipping hypocrite!” Since then, my challenge was not entirely with God and his reality, but with what turned out to be the linear, Americanization of the message of Jesus. Now I realize that has been the problem all along… That continues to be the problem. That will likely be the problem for a long time to come. We parted as friends. We have been emailing. He has read one of my books and we are setting up lunch that will take place soon. Why Toxic? If you have taken a sociology class in college you are familiar with a helpful word that described an aspect of the brokenness of all the sons and daughters of Adam – all people groups on the planet are ‘ethnocentric.’ That word means we all think our culture, our way of life is the best way of life. Further, if all the rest of the world could just see things the way we do, life on the planet would be oh so much better. If you are an American do you see how our well intentioned efforts have not been necessarily been equally received worldwide? Also, can you see how it is virtually impossible for teachers of the scriptures in the western world (namely the U.S.) to present the scriptures without laying a lot of the U.S. – western perspective upon our teaching – impartation to those we are influencing? That influence is what amounts to us as leaders being toxic. Freedom from toxicity is an encyclopedia full of discussion. Step one – humility. We come before God and his word with a heart of honesty. Our prayer (in general) follows: “On my own I will simply regurgitate what I have seen with my own eyes. I will simply react and place upon your word my humanness and my culture. Holy Spirit give me your capacity to see as you see…”
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Shuigh mé ar na mallaibh ar eitilt dhá uair an chloig in aice le Guy a bhí ar dtús le beagán miffed nuair a d'iarr mé má raibh mé in ann suí in aice leis an fhuinneog nuair a léamh a chuid ticéad toisc go bhfuil deacracht mhór ag dul suas agus síos ar planes mé (mo chosa damáiste agus gach). Guy ard comhaontaithe drogallach. Tá mé aon duine beag féin. Mar a fuair muid aerbheirthe mbun mé air i gcomhrá agus an giúmar bhog. Bhí sé ag caitheamh an léine a cuideachta. Bhí mé ar lucht leanúna mór de a gcultúr, n bunaitheoir-POF, a spiorad ceannródaíoch iontach atá annamh na laethanta. D'iarr mé air roinnt ceisteanna a dhó a bhí agam mar gheall ar a obair istigh. I mbeagán focal, Fostaíodh againn i gcomhrá tapa. Mar a labhair muid luaigh sé go raibh sé ar athraíodh a ionad le déanaí go Tampa ó Ohio ... sonrach Cincinnati. D'iarr mé dá mbeadh sé chuala riamh rud ar a dtugtar an Vineyard. Dúirt sé "Tá a fhios ag gach duine sa Cincinnati an Vineyard." Dúirt mé leis Janie agus fuair mé an liathróid rollta leis na heaglaisí Vineyard i Cincinnati le beagán níos mó ná fiche bliain ó shin. Bhí sé unbelieving. Dúirt sé, "Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil sin – aon duine a thosaigh an Vineyard – tá sé ach i gcónaí ann ... "gáire mé! "Bhuel, Tá gach rud claonadh chun tús a chur má cheapann tú faoi ... Féach suas mo ainm i Google. " Thosaigh sé chun breathnú ar dom éagsúil – mar a bhí mé "iad" agus go raibh sé "dúinn." Tá mé ag a úsáidtear chun go breathnú. Quelled mé go tapa trí insint dó mo scéal – conas tosú ag seacht aois nuair a mo mam an-annamh drugaí dom séipéal Liútarach áirithe Ba mhaith liom a insint di "Le do thoil nach thabhairt dom ar ais ann – is é sin Guy a labhraíonn hypocrite flipping!"Ó shin i leith, Ní raibh mo dúshlán go hiomlán le Dia agus a réaltacht, ach leis an méid a iompaigh amach a bheith ar an líneach, Americanization na teachtaireachta Íosa. Anois realize mé go bhfuil curtha ar an bhfadhb go léir chomh maith ... Go leanann de bheith ar an bhfadhb. Beidh sé dócha go bhfuil an fhadhb ar feadh tréimhse fada le teacht. Parted muid mar chairde. Táimid tar éis ríomhphost a sheoladh chuig. Tá sé ag léamh ar cheann de mo leabhair agus táimid a chur ar bun lón a bheidh ar siúl go luath. Cén fáth Tocsaineach? Má tá tú ag glacadh le rang socheolaíocht i gcoláiste a bhfuil tú eolach ar focal cabhrach a cur síos ar ghné den brokenness de na mhac agus iníonacha de Adam – Tá na grúpaí daoine ar an phláinéid 'eitnealárnacha. "Ciallaíonn sé sin focal againn ar fad a cheapann ár gcultúr, is é ár slí beatha an bealach is fearr den saol. Tuilleadh, má d'fhéadfadh go léir an chuid eile den domhan ach a fheiceáil rudaí ar an mbealach a dhéanann muid, Bheadh an saol ar an phláinéid a bheith OH i bhfad níos fearr. Má tá tú ag Meiriceánach a fheiceann tú conas nach bhfuil ár n-iarrachtaí intentioned maith a bheith faighte chomh gá ar fud an domhain? Chomh maith leis sin, Is féidir leat a fheiceáil conas a bhfuil sé beagnach dodhéanta do mhúinteoirí na scrioptúir ar fud an domhain an iarthair (eadhon U.S.) leis na scrioptúir i láthair gan a leagan ar a lán de na Stáit Aontaithe. – dearcadh an iarthair ar ár teagaisc – impartation dóibh siúd táimid tionchar a imirt? Is é sin an méid a tionchar méideanna dúinn mar cheannairí á tocsaineach. Tá saoirse ó thocsaineacht chiclipéid iomlán de phlé. Céim amháin – baint leis. Teacht againn roimh Dhia agus a chuid focal le croí na macántachta. Ár paidir (i gcoitinne) leanas: "Ar mo chuid féin beidh mé regurgitate ach an méid atá feicthe agam le mo shúile féin. Beidh mé ag freagairt go simplí agus áit ar do focal mo humanness agus mo chultúr. Spiorad Naomh a thabhairt dom do chumas a fheiceáil mar a fheiceann tú ... "