round table reflection & the illusion of knowing...

this past weekend i was honored to be invited to hang with some student pastors from the state and participate in a round table conversation about the current state of our student ministries and looking at where things are going...

i was reminded that its incredibly difficult to learn, probably impossible if we think we already know. the "illusion of knowing" has been so engraved into who we are that we fall victim to its gravity daily. the illusion of knowing forces us to protect the things we know creating a barrier to progress, a barrier to movement. furthermore, it forces us to correct people's philosophies that differ from ours. protecting and correcting are barriers to learning that dig deeper and deeper trenches most times without even knowing.

we will never MOVE or BECOME without learning and we will never learn if we have constructed barriers to learning.

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