Mosaic Ottawa blueprint…
Lon | November 21, 2006In the middle of taking a break from writing papers in the library today, I did a bit of dreaming and scheming for the future church plant. Inspired by the leadership synergy diagram from origins, I decided to flip it around and plot out some values of what I’ve been imagining. It’s been on my heart for so long, it only took a few minute once I had a framework to map it out in.
- At the core of every human being is the intrinsic desire to believe, belong, and become.
- We believe that these longings call people out on a journey towards drawing on Christ, deepening in Community, and being driven by the Cause
- Each of these are driven by values throughout in the culture. Both the divinity and the humanity of Christ, the individual purpose and corporate movement of the cause, and the unity and diversity of the community.
- This develops an environment permeated with visionaries, missionaries, and passionaries
- Collectively this is what forms a community of faith, hope, and love.
I wanted to take this a step further, and include another layer or additional overarching values of Reconciliation (faith + love), Beauty (love + hope), and Meaning (faith+hope), but it might be a little overboard.
What do you think? Any suggestions, tweaking, or major overhauling required?
Seems like missions is a really tiny part of your
ebrian | November 22, 2006Seems like missions is a really tiny part of your diagram.
Wow. I really like that. And it strikes me that
Mad Max | November 22, 2006Wow. I really like that. And it strikes me that the whole thing is mission. Faith, love, and hope all pointing out. Me thinks I may definitely be “borrowing” this diagram!
The only thing in my mind which I might tweak is the order or the words. Let me know what you think though…
At the moment you have unity and divinity flowing into passionary. I wonder whether diversity and humanity might fit better with this?
Also, at the moment you have humanity and purpose flowing into missionary. I wonder whether divinity and movement might go better with this?
And then, finally, you have movement and diversity flowing into visionary. I wonder whether purpose and unity might work better here?
So basically, I’m just wondering about switching the order round of humanity and divinity, purpose and movement, and unity and diversity.
What do you think?
Hey Lon, Some serious soul-reflecting going on here. It's good
Patrick | November 22, 2006Hey Lon,
Some serious soul-reflecting going on here. It’s good stuff, even if it sounds like math to me!
I’m wondering if it’s not “unity and divinity flowing into passionary” but rather (if I’m reading it correctly) that passionaries are primarily the convergence (or connection between) faith and love … that missionaries are propelled by their faith and underlying hope … and that visionaries are fueled by love and hope.
We need some hermenutical princple here, methinks …!
I think you're right about it being a convergence of
Mad Max | November 22, 2006I think you’re right about it being a convergence of faith & love, etc Patrick. I just was wondering whether the unity/diversity, humanity/divinity etc could also flow out into visionaries/passionaries/missionaries.
hey guys, sorry to chime in late... busy day.
Lon | November 22, 2006hey guys, sorry to chime in late… busy day. Yes Patrick, that’s exactly what I was thinking. But I can see how it can be confusing…
eBrian, good point. some of it gets lost in the language when it’s not all spelled out. If anything to me, a church is a missional organization, otherwise it is self-serving and should cease to exist.
Everything moves outward missionally to impact the surrounding culture. The extension that comes from the innate desire to become a person of significance -> leads to participating in the ultimate mission, the cause of Christ, which is fueled by unique individual purpose and corporate mission, and is seen as hope to the world.
It sounds complex, but most of this to me is just ‘internal language’ to help understand things amongst leaders. To the non-believing world I would always return to the core of believing, belonging, and becoming, and being known as a community of faith, hope, and love.
Sam, er Mad Max, you’re right, i still might rework some of this. some of the overlap can be confusing if it’s not clearly defined.
My other challenge in the beginning was that I wanted to put God at the center of the whole thing… possibly from the Genesis 1 account being Creative, Communal, and maybe Celebrated? but really God permeates this entire thing. Lots to think about still… I just liked having a framework to build from…
i'm not a huge fan of relational diagrams/hierarchies because it
Mark Begemann | November 23, 2006i’m not a huge fan of relational diagrams/hierarchies because it seems impossible to visualize all of the different aspects of… well, anything. when “everything” is included it tends to get very messy very quickly- like an entangled web or neural network. that being said, this is one of the best i have ever seen. i don’t think i could improve on it without diluting the overall message. it really is amazing and visionary. thanks for the food for thought!
Thanks for dropping by and your email to me Mark.
Lon | November 26, 2006Thanks for dropping by and your email to me Mark.
Lon, Just saw this post. Man...I think that's a good way
chad | January 18, 2007Lon,
Just saw this post. Man…I think that’s a good way to assimilate all the values together. Good luck with what you’re doing.
Are you starting a church plant in Ottawa? How are things going for that? Are you teamed up with someone…denomination, organiztation, etc?
Hey Chad, thanks. It's all church in the mind
Lon | January 18, 2007Hey Chad, thanks. It’s all church in the mind at the moment… people, partnerships, organizations, are all the really early stages still… got tips?
I like what you have there. Really cool.
Jason | April 27, 2007I like what you have there. Really cool. If I can add something, I’d just remind us that, from the Bible’s perspective, there is always the sin issue. For instance, your model states:
“At the core of every human being is the intrinsic desire to believe, belong, and become.”
Sin will obviously lead us to believe the wrong things, belong to the wrong things, and become something other than Christ-like people.
I don’t mean to sound pessimistic. Sorry if I do, but I’m learning that the issue of sin, carnality, the flesh, etc., is a factor of life, of every life, for all of our lives. How would the enemies of the Spirit be a part of the diagram? Or should it?
Hey Jason, thanks for visiting and commenting! You're absolutely
Lon | April 28, 2007Hey Jason, thanks for visiting and commenting! You’re absolutely right, i was struggling with communicating sin and in a way that’s how i began this.
So sins of disbelief, disharmony in relationships, and disservice to humanity could be another way of looking at it…
I wanted to get at the sin issue as not only our typical evil passions of the flesh perspective, but more broadly as even ‘knowing the good we ought to do, and not doing it, being sin as well. I wish I could figure a way to more clearly articulate it concisely in the diagram…
I also feel that all though broken, we’re all made in the image of God… and at the core, we’re not only sinful… and i figure believe, become, belong can be neutral terms to describe whether we’re moving in a healthy direction at the core…?
hope that helps, i’m completely open for reflection and fine-tuning, your thoughts are always welcome!
Hey Lon, I've been working on a leadership diagram that will
martyschmidt | June 19, 2007Hey Lon,
I’ve been working on a leadership diagram that will give us some structure as well as give us some flexibility. I am playing off the Catalyst, Corporate, and Causal type of leaders. I am in the position of Catalyst, I hired someone to help with the Corporate and the mother church is also helping with this. I have a worship guy who plays a big role in the Causal and I also have developed a Core Team of 25 people who will serve as our Causal leaders until we make some more permanent leaders.
With all of that being said I’m wondering about this believe, belong, become and how you tied it to faith, love, and hope. Have you pondered anymore about these connections?
Hey Marty, you must be talking about the synergy diagram
Lon | June 19, 2007Hey Marty, you must be talking about the synergy diagram that came out of origins… it’s awesome hearing how you’re implementing it… i do believe we need people of all types.. it’s interesting how you’ve distributed it, and how the bulk of the people are in the causal area… which is probably how it should be…
with my diagram here… one one level it’s about language… the language we use with those who are seeking would spring from these intrinsic desires of belong, believe, become… with community, christ, and cause being the leadership language in meeting those needs… faith, love, and hope would be our PR language… to the city, to the community..
but on another level it’s really about values and passions… these are core values that we feel must always be present and growing. the inner circle of the “B”’s are things we all need… faith, love, and hope in a sense is what I hope we can all contribute to others. and as a community the reality is we all contribute in different ways… and there are blends such as passionaries, missionaries, and visionaries… it’s important where people can see where they contribute best, without feeling bad/guilty about where they might not be serving… this diagram i hope would serve as a bigger picture, knowing that we’re healthy and as a larger community expanding in the right ways…
but yes, i’m still working a lot of this out… mostly in my head, and in smaller experimental communities…