De ‘samenhang’ van Mike Breen
Eén van de sterke punten van het gedachtengoed van Mike Breen (die ook achter de huddle-techniek van Nederland Zoekt zit) zijn de vele kleine modelletjes die laten zien hoe hij kijkt naar discipelschap, kerk-zijn, leiderschap e.d.
Een mooi voorbeeld is dit stukje tekst en plaatje:
“Jesus lived out his life in three relationships:
Up—with his Father;
In—with his chosen followers;
Out—with the hurting world around him”
Mike Breen explains these three relationships using Luke 6.
UP: Our relationship with God. In Luke 6:12, we see Jesus spending time in prayer. In the midst of so much he could be doing, Jesus takes time to pray to His Father. This shows how strong and how important Jesus considered his relationship to God.
IN: Our relationship with other Christians, especially those we are discipling. In Luke 6:13-16, we see Jesus calling the apostles into a discipling relationship with him. They are going to spend a lot of time with him and be trained by him.
OUT: Our relationship with the world, that is, with those outside the Kingdom of God. Jesus obviously did not live blocked off from people who weren’t good, synagogue-attending Jews. He went out into the world and worked to touch people’s lives with the Kingdom of God. We see this in Luke 6:17-19.
Breen says, “If we do not have all three elements of the Triangle—the Up, the In, and the Out—we are out of balance, and we will wobble through life”.
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We should have strong relationships in all three, though, as Breen comments, many churches are often weak in one of these areas. He calls these “two-dimensional churches”.