Another friend and colleague, the author, podcaster, and performance artist Rob Bell, uses a different three-stage model.2 In the first stage, we are each preoccupied with me; we focus on our individual or personal well-being, in this life and, if we believe in it, the next. We think in terms of my needs, my rights, my freedom, my power, my grievances, my ambitions, my salvation, my perfection, my growth, my future. Then some of us move to we; we become concerned for our group, tribe, race, denomination, religion, or nation. Social values like duty, responsibility, and sacrifice become
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