NASA and You

When NASA wants to send one of it’s ‘things’ into deep space (and by deep space I mean out past a few other planets or even past the edge of our own solar system), they don’t pick a straight path or even the shortest distance. Instead, they choose a path that sends their little space craft into the strong forces of gravity that surround other planets. The result is a “sling shot” effect as the satellite is pulled into orbit on one side of a planet and then fired out the other side at a much faster rate. All of this allows us to cover much more ground much more quickly because we can’t build rockets that can do the job all by themselves. I think here’s a powerful principle in there somewhere.

I think the same thing is also true of you and I as we move through our own life journey. As you read different parts of Proverbs (11:14, “There is wisdom in the counsel of many”) and Ephesians (4:15, “When we speak the truth in love” it leads to an unshakeable state), there is this sense that by listening to each other, we can create pockets of ‘strong forces’ that ‘fire’ us out the other side at an accelerated rate.

When we listen to each other, we can get pulled into a pocket of deep wisdom by building ideas that are too big for one or a few of us to figure out. When we listen to each other, we can be propelled by more than just one person’s worth of insight and that allows us to travel at an accelerated rate.

These are the ideas behind a project we launched on January 26th. A little more than 100 people came together to tell their story, sift through their collective insight and build a set of ideas about maturity that are deeper and richer than anything that could have come from just one or a few of us. The results are listed below in the form of 20 unique statements about maturity.

There are two ways you can participate in the next step. You can go through each of the 20 statements below and rank them as part of our survey. We will tabulate the results and us them to develop a 12 week teaching series which starts on March 9th. You can also interact with the material posted on our blog (http://www.uneditedspirituality.ca/wisdomlab/) if you’d like to take the process in a whole new direction. It would be great if you could do both. We’re hoping to capture the voice of a thousand people people along the way.

The New Testament is written as though something very special happens when you and I mix stories and do the work of taking each other seriously. It’s my hope that we can end up with 6 pockets of deep wisdom which pull us into an accelerated rate of living. So participate, be heard, and more importantly – be surprised at the outcome.

The following is a synthesis of the unique statements developed around the concept of maturity. From these 20 statements we hope to select 6 that will become the basis for 6 conversations on maturity.

That's where you come in. There are two questions, each containing ten of the Maturity Statements. Please read through the list, rate each statement and post your thoughts.

Click here to complete the survey.

Have a great week,

Chris