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Every now and then I get bogged up in my reading enough that I post some short notices about books that have crossed my desk that I think Jesus Creeders might like to know about but which I can\u2019t blog all the way through. Today I mention another one:
\nFor those who genuinely know what an \u201corganic\u201d community is, or who have participated in a community of faith that grew up organically, what do you think of his listing below?
\nJoseph R. Myers, author of the well-known The Search to Belong<\/a><\/em>, has a new book. It is in the emersion line of books with BakerBooks. His new book is called Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect<\/a><\/em>.
\nIf you are seeking to avoid the Master Plan programming model and, instead, want to create an organic environment, this is a good book for lots of ideas. Here\u2019s a summary of the Master Plan programming model and the Organic Order model:
\nPatterns: prescriptive vs. descriptive.
\nParticipation: representative vs. individual.
\nCoordination: cooperation vs. collaboration.
\nGrowth: bankruptcy vs. sustainability
\nMeasurement: bottom line vs. story.
\nPower: positional vs. revolving.
\nPartners: accountability vs. edit-ability.
\nLanguage: noun-centric vs. verb-centric.
\nResources: scarcity vs. abundancy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"