Hi All,
I'm back from 10 days in WA!
Walter Wink has said quite a lot about "Corporate Spirit" - particularly in
relation to the concept of "Powers and Principalities" (see the "Powers"
trilogy and subsequent book entitled, "The Powers that be").
He raises questions about...
- what kind of spirit are corporate bodies driven by? (businesses,
charities, churches, etc)
- what is the nature of corporate identity and responsibility, as opposed to
individual identity and responsibility?
- how is the Holy Spirit distinct and desirable by comparison to other
concepts of spirit?
Now Wink is not a "radical pente", but more of a conservative Christian
educator with a few radical discipleship tendancies... pretty standard
reading in Christian Education circles. He is really seeking to develop the
idea that a group is more than the sum of its individuals - and should be!
i.e. there is a group dynamic borne of a group spirit.
So - some questions for us...
- how much of an e-discussion-list is corporate, group-stuff and how much is
collective individualism?
- what group dynamics are at work?
- how much involvement do we expect the Holy Spirit to have in our
discussions? (for me that sometimes may mean when does the server go down?-
;) )
- how responsibile are we about the relationships developed in this setting?
These are intended as open-ended questions without right or wrong answers.
Rather, I am suggesting that the discussion about corporations might provoke
us into thinking about how we express corporate responsibility and a spirit
of cooperation and understanding. If we model it, maybe we have started on
the journey to sharing it more widely...
Blessings,
Amelia KB
YW Amelia Koh-Butler
Associate Director ELM (Education for Mission)
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Greg...
"That may say something about the pathology of corporations."
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