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I’ve found this somewhat amusing and is definitely an interesting perspective on product development.
It makes me wonder if there’s a parallel between what has been proposed above and how we create new churches and ministry organizations?
It’s fascinated me to watch “innovative” ministry leaders start new churches, ventures, and organizations that essentially promise something to the affect of being “radically different” but are quickly found to be very similar to the organizations that they left.
In fact, these leaders are both the critics and the product provider: They complain about the existing paradigms of the Church (how the “product” is broken with missing “features”) and then create something that seeks to “fix” it and these fixes are typically small things which they call “revolutionary.”
Amazing how the Church still stands strong after all these revolutions of revolutionaries…!
Perhaps we do more harm than good by creating new organizations that seek to make radical changes to superficial things instead of focusing on the more important things that never change.
PhillipGibb says
interesting thoughts
something to be said about the number of different denominations as Kent Shaffer mentions in Q+A :: List of Christian Denominations and Their Beliefs
John Saddington says
good point. wikipedia ftw……?
Dave Lloyd says
Great post, John. Reminds me of “you who judge others do the same things.” (Romans 2:1)
John Saddington says
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