unless the paradigm at the heart of the culture is changed there can be no lasting change.

Ivan Illich was once asked what did he think the was the most radical way to change society; was it through violent revolution or gradual reform? He gave a careful answer. Neither. Rather, he suggested that if one wanted to change society, then one must tell an alternative story. Illich is right; we need to reframe our understandings though a different lens, an alternative story, if we wish to move beyond the captivity of the predominantly institutional paradigm which clearly dominates our current approach to leadership and church.

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from Alan Hirsch
The Forgotten Ways
http://www.theforgottenways.org/blog/117#more-117

thanks to my Swedish friend Dan of Tro&Tank for pointing me towards Alan in Australia
http://www.trotank.se/blog/