Covocational

Covocational: The Church at the Intersection of Vocation, Mission and Church Planting

[Covocational @covocational]

A covocational church planter is one whose primary vocation is in the marketplace, but at the same time they feel lead to start a church. They realizes the two callings are not isolated from one another; but instead they are interlinked and equal.

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[Covocational @covocational]

If you want to learn more about #Covocational #ChurchPlanting check out the #Covo page on the @SendNetwork website at https://t.co/TL44QrfHpr. You can download free resources and sign up for a free Covo webinar. #KeepYourJob #PlantAChurch

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Most knowledge needs to be embodied.

"You only know as much as you do." ~ St. Francis

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

"The best careers aren't found; they're negotiated, day by day." #Vocation #Calling

~ From, "Is Your Work Worth It"

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

"The twentieth-century world is courting great danger in assuming that human beings can master their ultimate destiny by virtue of willpower alone."

~ Gerald May, "Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology"

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
~ Neil Postman

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Wisdom: metabolized experience mindfully shared for the common good ~ Chip Conley

Metabolism is crucial. Experience alone doesn't automatically yield wisdom. If it did every elder would be a sage. Instead life asks us to do the digestion ourselves: process/extract the nutrients

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

This is a great series on the topic of #APEST

Six Shifts Toward Reclaiming APEST https://t.co/osAv4JjAHN

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Listened to an interesting podcast where they discussed how we all have certain biases that keep us from really seeing or listening to other people. I think being aware of these is the first step to "seeing." This is especially true in politics and religion.

[Voltaire Archive @VoltaireQuote]

“Dare to think for yourself.”

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

"The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young."

~ James Hollis

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

I have always wondered why people never want to put a stone monument of the 8 Beatitudes on the courthouse lawn. Then I realize that the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus would probably not be very good for any war, any macho worldview, the wealthy or our consumer economy. #FallingUpward

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Awe pulls us beyond ourselves into something greater. Dacher Keltner shows us its sources, while Jung reminds us that awe awakens ancient archetypes in our collective unconscious, universal patterns that connect us to each other. #Fascinating

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

If you're not familiar with @forgeamerica visit their website. Over the years I have co-led a Forge hub in KC and served on the board for several years. It's one of the best tribes, communities & providers of missional insights & practices in the country: https://t.co/KsZP0CIYeR

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

Prophetic Intelligence for Apostolic Architecture
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[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Worldly thinking: "xenophobia" = fear/hatred of the stranger or foreigner.

Kingdom thinking: "philoxenia" = love of strangers; hospitality

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

Jesus had a Tax Collector and a Zealot on his core team — political arch-enemies. This choice makes absolutely no sense organizationally. But when you think about this transformationally, it turns the world upside down!

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Increasing the dosage.

If you're taking the wrong medication, that's not going to help.

It doesn't matter how fast you're going if you’re headed in the wrong direction.

~ Seth Godin

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Without nondual thinking, politics becomes binary: us versus them, left versus right, winning versus losing. The nondual mind, however, can move us from either/or thinking to see both/and. It's not that distinctions vanish, but that they are held in a larger space of unity.

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

"Dualistic thinking creates unnecessary conflict. By framing problems as either/or choices, we inadvertently pit opposing ideas against each other, creating false dichotomies."

~ "Both/And Thinking" by Wendy K. Smith & Marianne Lewis