{"id":2307,"date":"2007-06-29T01:20:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T01:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/leading-into-organic-community.html"},"modified":"2007-06-29T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T01:20:17","slug":"leading-into-organic-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/leading-into-organic-community.html","title":{"rendered":"Leading into Organic Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then I get bogged up in my reading enough that I post some short notices about books that have crossed my desk that I think Jesus Creeders might like to know about but which I can’t blog all the way through. Today I mention another one:
\nFor those who genuinely know what an “organic” community is, or who have participated in a community of faith that grew up organically, what do you think of his listing below?
\nJoseph R. Myers, author of the well-known The Search to Belong<\/a><\/em>, has a new book. It is in the emersion line of books with BakerBooks. His new book is called Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect<\/a><\/em>.
\nIf you are seeking to avoid the Master Plan programming model and, instead, want to create an organic environment, this is a good book for lots of ideas. Here’s a summary of the Master Plan programming model and the Organic Order model:
\nPatterns: prescriptive vs. descriptive.
\nParticipation: representative vs. individual.
\nCoordination: cooperation vs. collaboration.
\nGrowth: bankruptcy vs. sustainability
\nMeasurement: bottom line vs. story.
\nPower: positional vs. revolving.
\nPartners: accountability vs. edit-ability.
\nLanguage: noun-centric vs. verb-centric.
\nResources: scarcity vs. abundancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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