Mike has an excellent post on Change vs Transformation
But I think it's worth a post to note that if we really want something new, something better, to finally break free and make it, we need Transformation not Change. And for Transformation to occur, something has to die.
Maybe it's pride that dies, as we choose to admit someone else was right.
Maybe it's a plant or animal as we need food to become energy and keep us alive.
Maybe it's a business decision to sacrifice one exploitable market, to see what new opportunities exist as we include the world.
If we look at everything we do as a zero-sum game, this is terrifying. Because as something dies, there is less to work with and have. Are all our fears tied back to looking at friends, family and life from a perspective of a zero-sum game? If there is really on so much, we have to fight and hoard to get as much as we can.
From my perspective, God is not about a zero-sum game at all. There aren't only X number of seats available on that final train home. He loves us all, there is no special club. We are all welcome. To deal with our separation, we must choose to let go of that which is broken, in order to abide with the Him. But we are free to choose to be a part of the abundance he provides, or to choose what is limited. The transformation that brings us into God's abundance is the death of our hold on hoarding the things around us.
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If the prospect of transformation is viewed as zero-sum game, what motivation do we have to accept, let alone initiate, transformation? I suppose it is at a basic level: something dies in order for something else to live that wouldn't have been able to otherwise. The example of Christ, though, would seem to negate that. He died so you, me, everyone we know, and everyone we don't know could live - hardly a zero-sum game, that one.
Think I'll post more on my blog, too.
I'm not sure we can initiate transformation. We can only choose to let something in ourselves die, so transformation can happen. You can fear loosing something, or just not want to, because you only believe there is so much. That is the zero-sum game. But you have to turn your back on *somthing* including the belief that life is a zero-sum game, and then abundance can flow and transformation can occur.
The Father chose to send his Son to die: and the outcome was transforming a way for us.
I think every choice we make can have the zero sum mentality behind it, if we want. When we choose to let something like our 'wants' die, then transformation can happen. And when transformation happens, it, by it's nature, cannot be zero-sum.
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