Redefining Culture - Part 1
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Whether you realize it or not, your family has a culture & you might not even know what that culture is.
Countries have cultures - Like Japan
"出る釘は打たれる"
“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”
As long as this is the culture you want it is great. However, if you want some original thoughts to be fostered, perhaps this culture doesn’t allow much for that.
What is Culture?
What is Culture?
A Loose Definition - the beliefs and behaviors that govern how people act in an organization
Merriam Webster’s Dictionary - the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
Culture is dynamic… it represents both what brings people together, but also what drives people apart. It is inclusive of the things that make an organization great, but also the things that serve as drawbacks (no organization or person is perfect, right?)
“Culture is like personality. In a person, the personality is made up of the values, beliefs, underlying assumptions, interests, experiences, upbringing, and habits that create a person's behavior.
Culture (in an organization) is made up of the values, beliefs, underlying assumptions, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a group of people. Culture is the behavior that results when a group arrives at a set of—generally unspoken and unwritten—rules for how they will work together.
Your culture is made up of all of the life experiences that each person brings.”
“You can have the best plan in the world, and if the culture isn’t going to let it happen, it’s going to die on the vine,” Mark Fields (former CEO Ford Motor Company)
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Peter Drucker (?)
I don’t like some things about our culture!
The good news is that we can change our culture.
Kingdom Culture
Kingdom Culture
17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Kingdom = King’s Domain (where the King resides and is in control)
Righteousness = (G1343) equity (of character or act); justification
Peace=(G1515) to join (lit. or fig.); by implication - Prosperity
Joy= (G5479) cheerfulness, i.e. calm delight
Rhetorical Question: Is this what you experience here at The Ark -ALL THE TIME - in every situation, at every function, with all the people???
1 Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!
7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
Matt5.7-9
Culture is much less determined by what comes at you (like offense) and much more about who you BE!
You don’t have to be in a position of influence to have influence.
-When we step up, it encourages others to step up as well
Be (embody) the culture you want to see!
36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. 37 “Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
1 Stop pronouncing censorious criticism, in order that you may not be the object of censorious criticism, for with that judgment by which you are judging, you will be judged, and with that standard of judgment with which you are judging, by that standard will judgment be passed on you. And why do you contemplate the splinter of wood in the eye of your brother and do not put your mind upon the log in your own eye? Or, how is it that you will say to your brother, Permit me to draw out the splinter from your eye, and, behold, the log is in your eye? O actor on the stage of life, draw out first from your eye the log, and then you will see clearly to draw out the splinter from the eye of your brother.
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Be the change!
1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Just One Thing
Just One Thing
Culture might eat strategy for breakfast, but we determine our culture - Kingdom Culture
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
BE THE CHANGE!!!
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Discussion Questions:
Discussion Questions:
What unethical experiment would have the biggest positive impact on society as a whole?
What is the best culture you have ever experienced (family, business, country, etc. )? What were the major things about that culture that you loved?
Read and please share how you can apply this passage practically in your life.
4. How can you start to BE the change you want to see?