Questions
If I had an hour…
Monday, January 25th, 2010Great quote picked up from the Art of Hosting website. If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 [...]
Inside/Outside
Monday, December 14th, 2009Great quote amongst many on just Hugh MacLeod’s page, “Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside.” let alone the incredible range of contributions to this new free ebook called What Matters Now. that is well worth dipping in to. Again, from Seth Godin: When the economy tanks, it’s natural to think of yourself first. [...]
Questions, questions
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Further to yesterday’s post on rules and incentives Subversive Influence has this to say: “In considering this whole scenario, I thought about the rules and hierarchies in some churches which discourage the asking of questions. In such environments, the rules are presented as “the way it is,” and further thinking on the implications is discouraged [...]
Further up and further in
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008Recently my youngest daughter has become totally captivated with all things Narnian. Every evening involves reading chucks of the books, almost every day her chosen TV viewing is actually the old BBC series on some of the stories, and so on. And while reading I have continually come back to the realisation of just how [...]
The importance of questions
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I caught this excellent post from Dan Steigerwald on the need from Core questions from reading Next Reformation. Since smallboatbigsea’s splash on the wider missional church scene (aided by Frost and Hirsch), a number of communities have adopted, straight-up, a “BELLS” framework – same practices, and in some cases the exact verbiage snipped out of [...]
Asking The Right Questions
Sunday, October 21st, 2007One of the issues raised in the World Cafe book is the issue of asking the right questions. The more you concentrate on this the more you realise how challenging it is to construct open questions, that actually help people to explore something without the constraints of assumptions and pre-formed outcomes. It certainly has shown [...]
World Cafe
Saturday, October 20th, 2007There are just those moments that sometimes happen when a whole lot of things bubbling away inside you meet bang on with an external expression of what is happening internally in you. In this case its my encounter with a wonderful new book, The World Cafe – Shaping our futures through conversations that matter, by [...]
Debt – GNP = ???
Friday, August 24th, 2007A thought provoking new study issued yesterday by UK accountants Grant Thornton has revealed an estimate that the country’s size of debt is now greater than our gross national product for the first time. In one sense can anyone be surprised by this given the culture of spend, spend, spend we have. But when will [...]
Too much thinking?
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007I get worried sometimes that I think too much. Not that in any way that thinking is wrong, but more that I wonder when it comes to Jesus whether my thinking can slip in to a mode of me trying to work things out, with the underlying intent of actually wanting a measure of control [...]
Living two lives?
Thursday, June 7th, 2007As mentioned before I recently celebrated another birthday (my 6 year old really can’t understand my laid back approach to something that should be zealously enjoyed!) I was born a twin (my twin sister Helen died shortly after birth) stirred me again to consider how fortunate and blessed I have been to be able to [...]
Some questions
Monday, May 14th, 2007Some very challenging questions from Alan – try them on yourself: What are you actually doing that is good and/or successful? What are you doing that you don’t feel good about or is unsuccessful? What do you really want to be doing? What skills/understanding/experience that you are not currently using (in other words what’s your [...]