“Jazz players look for and notice instability, disorder, novelty, emergence, and self-organization for their innovative potential rather than as something to be avoided, eliminated, or controlled. Indeed, jazz bands are very much human systems living at the edge of chaos. To understand their social complexity requires cultivating an aesthetic that values surrender and wonderment over certainty, appreciation over problem solving, listening and attunement over individual isolation.” (From Frank J. Barrett in Yes to the Mess, 68)
Look at the photo above and see if you can identify points of order, organization and innovation.
How might you grow in faith if you joined a group that “lived at the edge of chaos”?
Is it possible that followers of Jesus were just such a group?
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