the money, we buy new stuff. Congregational systems guru Ed Friedman writes, “When any . . . system is imaginatively gridlocked, it cannot get free simply through more thinking about the problem. Conceptually stuck systems cannot be unstuck simply by trying harder.”20 Friedman clarifies the challenge in front of us: We are “imaginatively gridlocked.” We can’t see our way to a new way of being, a new response.
