Niche pockets of Thriving

1 Corinthians 12:12-14 – “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.”

In his book, Culture Care,  Makoto Fujimura discusses the ideas of unity in diversity. 

A healthy eco-system is hospitable to all kinds of life-giving growth! In a healthy system, there is often a great variety of life multiplying, reproducing and thriving together in niche pockets. It is the opposite of an industrial, uniform, militaristic approach to land management. Large scale farms only have room for one uniform type of crop, all others are removed. The same myopic view is often applied to other areas of culture.

Where do you see this homogenous mentality (making everything the same and uniform) damaging our thriving and our culture today? What alternatives do we have?

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“perseverance produces character; and character, hope.” – Romans 5:4

‘You can’t get something for nothing’ is how the old saying goes; ‘there is no free lunch’. Even in the lesson of Salvation through Grace, which is freely given to us, we see that it was not free; there was a great cost (it killed Jesus, and will radically change us if it’s for real). ‘You can’t get an omelette without breaking some eggs’…

When has perseverance produced character in your life?