The common approach:
Lord it over, exercise authority, benefactors
The alternative:
Greatest like youngest, ruler like servant
“I am among you as one who serves”
I am not Lord Grantham
I am not Carson
I am Mrs Patmore
I am Daisy, I am James (feed, help, clean up)
I am not the inaccesible, privileged one
The All Blacks model
What is true? Trumpism.
What is valuable?
How do we make decisions?
Greatest happiness?
Least pain!
Two roads; one broad, one narrow
Two gates; one wide, one straight
Two destinations; life, destruction
Two peoples; many, few
One choice
Never fully present
Unresolved conflict
Unrealistic expectations
Unrealised creativity, quiet and reflection
Big Data
Artificial Intelligence
40% of Facebook users in our sample made
a friend request, but 63% received at least one
request

Users in our sample pressed the like button
next to friends’ content an average of 14 times,
but had their content “liked” an average of 20
times

Users sent 9 personal messages, but
received 12

12% of users tagged a friend in a
photo, but 35% were themselves tagged in a
photo
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 Huge Opportunity
Engage Biblically
Help eachother
Growing up is taking longer – adolescence
now thought to last to 25
Significant issues around stress and health
Arrested and Accelerated Development
Most educated, least informed, most
sophisticated, most naïve.
Cohorts and transitions
What is indigenous?
Higher Wall or a Longer Table?
What do we export, import, learn, value?
Apologetics, Ideas & Informed engagement
“this is where we worship”
“a lot of me to see a little of Jesus”
1. In Jerusalem for a feast
2. Goes to the excluded
3. Notices the individual
4.
Speaks
5.
Effects change beyond humanly possible
6.
Follows Up
1. There because of a legend
2. Response conditioned by 38 years
3. Called to 3 impossible things
4.
Transformed by the word of God
5.
Into conflict
6.
Into relationship
1. Sincere in their desire
2. Selective in their vision
3. Horizon of hope limited by experience
4.
No joy, no grace, no Jesus
PRODIGAL SON
ELDER BROTHER