Get Real about the

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Get Real about the Dynamics of Paradigms
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What Color is the Grass in Your World?
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Paradigms and the Church
Jesus Model of His Church is a
PARADIGM
Counterfeit Models of Church are
PARADIGMS
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CHURCH
LOCAL CHURCH
LOCAL CHURCH
LOCAL CHURCH
Your Churchs Paradigm
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Paradigms

• Organize
• Explain
• Establish values
• Tell us how

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Our Paradigms

• Filing systems
• Provide structure / rules for
• perceiving
• categorizing
• evaluating
• integrating
• storing / retrieving
• acting

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Plans for the New Church Building
As seen by ---
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The Music Director
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The Preacher
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The Youth Minister
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The Church Secretary
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The Finance Committee
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What Is a Paradigm?
As they ARE
As they OUGHT to be
As I deal with them
A mental map

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• Mind-set / habit of mind
• Frame of reference values, premises, convictions
• System for integrating information / thoughts
• Window-on-the-world (Weltanschauung)
• Guidance system

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A Paradigm is
A model
A pattern
An exemplar
A representation
A comparison
A world-view
A set of values, rules assumptions
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2. A way of doing thingsOur

• operating systems,
• programs, plans,
• structures, organizations,
• procedures, traditions,
• habits, customs, routines

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A Paradigm is like
A map
A diagram
A blueprint
A jigsaw puzzle
A knothole
Mac / Windows
A chart
A plan
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DOS
WINDOWS
Apple
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A Current Ferment of Paradigms in the
World Around Us
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Examples of Paradigms

• In Education

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Charter Schools to look forward to
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Fundamen- talist School
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Western Values School
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Afro- Academy
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Islamic Jihad Center
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The Militia Insti- tute
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The Public School
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Example The Universe
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Example political
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Examples Etc.
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Paradigm Dynamics
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Dynamics of Paradigms
Growth
Pliant
Shift
Resistant
Dinosaur
Rigid
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A Real Life Parable
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The Nature of Paradigms

• Necessary
• Accurate or inaccurate
• Adequate or inadequate
• Integrated, disintegrated, or partitioned
• Help or hinder

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• Function unconsciously
• Form in groups
• They persist

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Paradigms are
Individual
and
Collective
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Constructing a paradigm
The Biblical paradigm
Espoused paradigm
Working paradigm
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The Biblical paradigm
Espoused paradigm
Working paradigm
Evaluating a paradigm
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Principle
Back to the Standard
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Institutionalization
X
Structure
Nostalgia
Goals
Questioning
Polarization
Beliefs
Dropout
Dream
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An example of paradigms at work
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The Universe According to Ptolemy
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Habits tied to

• Physical experience
• Accepted theology
• Prevailing philosophy

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The Universe According to Copernicus