[CS-FSLUG] Don't Tread on Me?

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

I like your comparison (weak and inadequate tho it is).  And I agreee that
decentralisation has been and remains  a hallmark of biblical
Christianity. But only as we use that decentralisation as individual
followers of Christ to focus on the true Center: Christ, and to follow
HIM. And to the degree that we do that, we find ourselves drawn together
in Him.

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> wrote:
>> Agreed. In my view, the church "structure" isn't at fault as much as the
>> direction most churches have taken.
>
> I would disagree. ;-) And I'll use the free software model to prove
> it, too! What is it that we all like about the open-source, free
> software model? It's the decentralization of power. Why? It keeps any
> one person bending the whole thing to his own, personal needs. With
> the Mac, people have one man to "blame" for everything--Steve Jobs.
> With Windows, it's not one man, but the organization, called
> Microsoft. But try to pin _anything_ on any one person with the Linux
> model, and who can you blame? Sure, it may seem chaotic, but it keeps
> moving forward. It's almost organic.