True Community (Part 2): Embracing The Chaos | Jake Haber - Extended Version

Join us for Part 2 of our series "True Community" as we look at the journey from "pseudo-community" to "chaos community". Along the way, we'll be challenged to live with authenticity, stop avoiding conflict, and show up as our true selves—no matter the risk. 

 

Quotes: 

 

Tim Keller: 

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything.”

 

M. Scott Peck: 

“Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.”

"Chaos is not just a state, it is an essential part of the process of community development… In the stage of chaos individual differences are, unlike those in pseudocommunity, right out in the open."

 

Carl Jung: 

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order” 

 

Anais Nin:

“In chaos, there is fertility.”

 

Deepak Chopra: 

“All great changes are preceded by chaos"

 

 Friedrich Nietzsche:

 “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

 

Robert Drake: 

"Look deeper through the telescope and do not be afraid when the stars collide towards the darkness, because sometimes the most beautiful things begin in chaos.” 

 

Luke 12: 49-53

 “I’ve come to start a fire on this earth—how I wish it were blazing right now! I’ve come to change everything, turn everything rightside up—how I long for it to be finished! Do you think I came to smooth things over and make everything nice? Not so. I’ve come to disrupt and confront! From now on, when you find five in a house, it will be—Three against two, and two against three; Father against son, and son against father;Mother against daughter, and daughter against mother, Mother-in-law against bride, and bride against mother-in-law.”  

Crisis = 危机 (wēi jī)

危(wēi) = "danger

机 (jī) = "a crucial point, when something begins to change.”