These are notes I took from the Podcast The God Journey on the book The Starfish and the Spider
1. Stop reading after page 131 as it undermines the beginning.
2. Its a business book which sees what our faith in Christ should look like when Church as we know it cannot.
3. It's about the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations
4. The church has an advantage that it has Jesus as its leader.
5. It's basically emphasizing the power of decentralized community.
6. It's what happens when no leaders are around or no heirachy. Systems and structures create bottle necks.
7. A 'Revelational Reality' is what Jesus gave us when he said 'on this rock' not a a system, a structure or an institution.
8. For a starfish to move , one of the arms of the starfish has to convince the other arms to move as well. No one yet understands how they do this, its a mystery.
9. Large groups of people automatically self police themselves.
10. To be a catyliser in this new way of doing things the basic requirement is that you have a genuine interest in others.
11. Catylisers have loose connections, they exist for a time and the morph into other things.
12. Some people see a bigger or larger strategy and they catylise and connect people together so synergy may happen.
13. Connections are important and some people just seem to do a lot of connecting.
14. These catylists want to release life.
15. A catyliser starts where people are at and goes from there. They engender trust because there is no agenda.
16. Catylisers tolerate ambiguity.
17. Modern Structures including church cannot tolerate ambiguity.
18. The tenets we use are human deductions of what God / Bible has left what in the end is ambiguous.
19. Does that undermine the Bible, no way, but it is not a tool manual. There is a lot of ambiguity we need to live in as Christians.
20. You have to ask are you worshiping a book or a person.
21. We need to be comfortable with ambiguity.
22. Why is the world coming to this but the church is not?
