Stuart Murray stuurde mij onlangs deze mail.
“Some of you took part in a 36-hour consultation in mid-September organised by Juliet Kilpin, George Lings and myself. At the Mission 21 church planting conference back in March 2006, we noticed that people were using different language, were operating from different assumptions and had different expectations. In fact, it seemed to us that there were five different church planting ‘tribes’ there – and that there was a danger of misunderstanding and marginalising each other or talking at cross purposes.
Over the next 18 months we developed a matrix to describe these five tribes and their main characteristics. Last month, about 35 of us gathered to test out this matrix, listen to different ‘tribal perspectives’ and explore ways of working together. I thought you might be interested to see this matrix (and maybe consider which tribe you belong to), so I’m attaching it.
We’re not sure what, if anything, we do with this now. We’ll incorporate suggestions and criticisms from the consultation into a revised version, and we may then test this out further. We don’t want to label people or box them in. But we want to understand and learn from different perspectives so that we plant churches more effectively.
If you have any comments on this, please let me know”
Over the next 18 months we developed a matrix to describe these five tribes and their main characteristics. Last month, about 35 of us gathered to test out this matrix, listen to different ‘tribal perspectives’ and explore ways of working together. I thought you might be interested to see this matrix (and maybe consider which tribe you belong to), so I’m attaching it.
We’re not sure what, if anything, we do with this now. We’ll incorporate suggestions and criticisms from the consultation into a revised version, and we may then test this out further. We don’t want to label people or box them in. But we want to understand and learn from different perspectives so that we plant churches more effectively.
If you have any comments on this, please let me know”
Hieronder vind je de matrix van Stuart - wat denk jij van deze vijf stammen?