George

So George Osborne proved me wrong:  hallelujah!

Truthful with the economics, and forecasting lean times beyond the end of this parliament.  Although the news isn’t good, I feel strangely lightened by the freshness of his candour, and a sober prediction about the state of the economy that goes as far as 2017.

It seems as if the government has suddenly grown up and decided to treat us as people who can hear the truth – even hard truth – and accept that a strategy of long-term consistency is needed to sort out the nation’s financial problems.

I’ve been wondering what the church equivalent would look like.  In some areas of church life people are discussing the straitened spiritual circumstances of both church and society, but some are not.  Some are looking at new ways of generating spiritual wealth, others are entrenching themselves in attitudes and practices familiar from old.  There is great risk here.  As Peter Drucker (thinker and writer on management practice) said, ‘The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the danger, but to act with yesterday’s logic.’

I wonder what is the equivalent of George Osborne’s shocking honesty for the church today?  And what might be the breath-taking announcement of long-term strategy?  Suppose we wanted to grow a spiritually rich and Kingdom-oriented nation of people by 2050, what might our strategy be and how would it be in line with today’s or even tomorrow’s logic?  I’d really like to know your thoughts on this one, so please let me know here on the site or on Facebook.  Thanks!

 

One comment

  1. Not sure about this but will have a little think. But Einstein did say that current problems cannot be solved with current thinking, we have to think completely new and differently. You can’t just keep on trying the same old solutions cos it won’t work!

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