IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE !
- Live Simply
- Say no to bulky furniture
- Fall in love with space optimization, make it your new hobby
- Don’t stay in your appartement at night, go where the people are
- Eat what the natives eat, sleep like they sleep, play like they play
- Know your stress busters, USE your stress busters
- Set smart limits
- Your home needs to be a refuge from the storm
- Spend time with your target group
- Give generous amounts of time to priorities
- Say NO
- Love
- Family time is sacred
- SABBATH
- Get out of the city from time to time
- Shop like your neighbors, every neighborhood functions differently
- Stay faithful to your personal sense of justice, do community service
- Practice “l’art de vivre,” make living well an art
BE THE CHURCH
- Read large quantities of scriptures
- Church exists first in your dream
- Cast a vision of what it will be even while it is still developing
- Plan more ministry than you can handle
- Half of the events will be canceled anyway
- Those events that do happen will be attended only 1/2 of the time by 1/2 of the people
- Cooperation, ministry exchange and prayer with others
- Legitimacy is built through networking
- Work toward reaching critical mass
- Live spiritual family wherever you’re at, with whomever you have
- Live on the same block as your core group and team, or at least close enough to drop by and borrow a cup of flour
- The most effective church building strategy is to personally live a good life – 1 Peter 2-3
KNOW YOUR CITY
- Transience is a reality. Have a plan. Deal with it.
- You may save money living further away, but you will pay the price with your time and emotions if you have a long commute. Travel time is just as emotionally draining as work. Plan to do less.
- The purpose of intellectual debate in society is to attack, promote cynicism, cut down, and pulverize the opponent. Don’t waste time. Preach Jesus.
- The Space-Time Continuum – Public space is everyone’s private space. Everything is available at all hours, nobody has any time to get together.
