This book challenged much of what I am and how I think. It just may you as well.
It truly is a new day….with a new way of operating within our families, our businesses, and our churches. As the book’s introduction shares……The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind—computer programmers who could crank out code, lawyers who could craft contracts , MBA’s who could crunch numbers, and pastor’s with 3 point sermons defining practical….logical ways to God. But the keys to the kingdom….and the “Kingdom” as well are changing hands.
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people—artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers—will now reap society’s richest rewards and embody the new pastor’s (with empathy and parables) impacting the “Kingdom”. This book describes a seismic—though as yet undetected—shift now under way in much of the advanced world.
It is driven by:· Abundance….. and the resulting search for purpose, · Asia….. stealing our logical left brain jobs, · Automation….. eliminating those that remain.
We are moving from an economy and a society built on logic, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and society built on the inventive, empathetic, big picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place…… the Conceptual Age. The Conceptual Age will reward six essential attitudes……or six senses….on which organizational as well as personal success will depend. Design, Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play.Meaning. The survival of Christianity in the Western world may very well depend our ability to master them in ministry as well. (A Whole New Mind, by H. David Pink)
