pausing to think about a church in light of its system or DNA gives us a frame for considering the challenges we face and at the same time, acknowledge a tension in all adaptive work: To learn and adapt we need new, creative experiments in relationships and purposes. Although the old solutions may have been good and effective once, the old solutions are inadequate. When we are experimenting with new solutions within a living system, we are doing so with something that has a history, is alive and precious, and must be handled with care.
