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The Pella Square
How To Make Your Communities Better
[Is The Pella Square to community discipling what
the Romans Road,
or 4 Spiritual Laws are to individual salvation?]
Example: Pella, Iowa—We’ll
apply this to others later.
We write her history around the square, as the first layer.
Imagine arrows going from 1--southwest corner to southeast corner, then
2--southeast corner to northeast, then 3-- northeast to northwest, and finally
4—northwest to southwest, back down to the start. (Best to have ½ the group go
clockwise). [Note: Actually start WEST
of SW corner, and end up SOUTH of SW corner]
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4--From 2011 go south from northwest corner
3--To 2011 go west from northeast corner
2--To 1922 go north from southeast corner
1--To 1847 -> go
east from southwest corner
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Then we add the second layer, the Heidelberg Catechism’s
summation: Guilt, Grace, Gratitude, and GoForth+ (the latter, Jeff Harlow)
Thus:
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4--GoForth+ go
south from northwest corner
3--Gratitude
go west from northeast corner
2--Grace go north from southeast corner
1--Guilt east from
southwest corner
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Let us sum up the first two squares.
Something was wrong in Holland, so Domine (Reverend) Scholte
and about 800 people came to America, to Pella (‘Pella’ means ‘refuge’—they
sought refuge). To 1847. ‘
Pella was founded in 1847 when eight hundred Dutch immigrants led by Dominee (Minister)
Hendrik (Henry) P. Scholte settled the area.’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Iowa
They enjoyed life, and built a community for about 100
years—this building and enjoying continues.
In 1922, this history was written to be shared. In 1936 it
began to be shared in a yearly community celebration, Tulip Time. Many visitors come. Also, tourists come at all times of the year
to see Pella, the Historical Village,
etc.
Now, in A. D. 2011, we ask this question:
How can this refuge be given to others?
We are in an age of increasing technological benefits, but,
as Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy said, any new technology increases the space over
which we can operate, decreases the time it takes, but destroys the old community. [Fear not, as travel went from ships
and covered wagons, to railroads, and cars, we have lived through that change.]
We see three more Christian principles at work here in How To Make Your Communities Better/The Pella Square.
1—The consummation is greater than the creation. That is, as Pella moves along her covenant history, there
are greater things.
2—As great Providential gifts are given, we are to give. Pella was given refuge,
she should give refuge.
3—We are to become more and more what we are. Personally,
each is a unique image of GodTrinity, with talents to be used. For Pella, she is to become
more and more her name: Refuge.
How about your
community? Here’s an example of Stuart,
Iowa.
When was it founded (Stuart, Iowa, 1871), and why (the
railroad having been built, land could be better used for a better life).
What was the key event to mark when sharing began (Good Egg
Days?)
What of your community’s name should be shared as you become
more and more your name ( ____________)?
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4--Commission go south from northwest corner
3--Commune go west from northeast corner
2--Consecrate go
north from southeast corner
1--Call and
Cleanse go east from southwest corner
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Let’s add one more layer to our square, before we get to the
next stage. It is from the structure of
worship at the church pastured by Pastor Nolder. Let’s see how it ‘rhymes’.
A presupposition: History is liturgy (Wayne Larson). . (Also
see the first 5 (or 4) Words/Commandments and Gardner’s ‘Beyond Belief’ (2008) on
Rosenstock-Huessy.
(Note: This developed from MaeDay80, a holiday
developed from a seed planted at a celebration on the Eve of The Circumcision
of Our Lord, Dec. 31, A. D. 2005, during our Via Pellarosa of Mom’s ‘care’).
Christ the Redeemer uses 5 Cs. Call, Cleanse, Consecrate,
Commune, Commission. I, Chuck Hartman (website), have put Call and Cleanse
together as ridding of guilt, until 1847. Consecrate (the sermon) would be
living out the Word from 1922, and continuing. Communion (sharing) begins in
1922 with Souvenir History of Pella (a936, Tulip time).
We are now at the Commissioning stage, how to give refuge,
greater than receiving it.
[In Sunday Adelaja’s ‘Church Shift, pages 135-6, he tells how he asks for a show of hands of those who have
a project or a talent that they want to use to ‘go about doing good’. He puts
hand-raisers into committee(s), to draw up plans and manuals, and had them test
it out on a small scale before rolling it out completely.
His church has 2000 (two thousand) of these groups as of late summer
2011.]
In each of these 4 areas,
what have been (will be, post 2011) the key events in Pella, and/or your community, in these eras
around the square in a memory palace? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Categories below are Rosenstock-Huessy’s.
Please help us fill
out this form to participate in PROPR—Participatory Recommissioning Of
Pella/Refuge. Thanks!
Community (tribe)
Business (empire) Religion
(Israel) Education (Greece)
How can Pella share refuge in the areas of
Community, Business, Religion,
Education?
For more references and help, see our ‘The Pella Square’ website ( ------------).
The Lord be with you.
PART TWO. Not part of the brochure. Could be on the website(s).
Additional information:
Examples of Pella
giving more might be: Community—this brochure, help on website and as
ministry. More Business, help the
unemployed, home business on internet (sic). Religion, explicit covenant
(Mayflower Compact), other ministry help, especially ‘discipling by getting
others into the narrative. Education, home schooling, on-line MIT classes and
more, Khan Academy, etc.
Each of these four categories of community (festivals…), business
work schedules, marketing calendars…), religion (church year, weekly worship…),
education (semesters, degree programs…), has its own calendar.
On communities being destroyed, see Creveld
http://mises.org/daily/527 , Barzun’s
epilog to From Dawn to Decadence, Nisbet (History of the Idea of Progress,
Introduction), and Berman (‘Law and Revolution’ Introduction—the best
scholarship:North). Hat tip: GKN These are all speaking of the nation-state
system.
On the national revolutions of the West following a pattern
of Imperative, Subjective, Narrative, Objective, see Chapter 5 of Gardner’s
‘Beyond Belief’. His complete cross of reality at the end is valuable, and the
memory palace above is related to it, though differs.
Jordan’s
short ‘Crisis, Opportunity, and the Christian
Future’ uses Law, Lyric, Evaluation, Fact as the sequence. His ‘Covenant
Sequence in Leviticus and Deuteronomy’ has a 12-stage sequence, ending in the
new song of the covenant.
The Heidelberg Catechism is online, the Souvenir History is
difficult to find.
Our eBook is for sale here: (when done, link). It elaborates
on this process.
This is part two, subjective,
of Hartman’s 4-part ‘Peace! Be a Hero: Help Explicitly Reconcile Opposites’
plan to avoid the perpetual war of the neo-tribes, while also avoiding the
slavery of empires, as the nation-state seems to be failing. Done right, it
will keep the enthusiastic small groups of the tribes, and the productive
economy of the empires. Comprehensive Beauty of Rhyming Covenant Sequences is
the Imperative, and The Symphony of Peace/History is the narrative—the
scientific method of the sociological era, and The Jordan 49 Calendar is the
objective front. Forward, In, Back, Out.
Law, Lyric, Evaluation, Fact.
An example of how
rhyming covenant sequences helps.
Take two of them. THEOS and the first 4, 5 words, commandments.
If coming to Pella 1847 is both obeying a Transcendent God
and setting up a new Hierarchy (America, not Holland), then living Ethically
until 1922 (and continuing) would be next, but what does one do with ‘Oaths and
Sanctions’ as the next side of the square?
One goes to the word/commandment about the Sabbath, and
realizes that its admonition to give rest fits in with the sharing of Tulip
Time and Souvenir History of Pella, so that the Oath part is seen to be more
Sanctions—that one should give rest somehow.
One also sees an implication of getting out and coming to
the new land, the Transcendent Hierarchy, and of Ethically living there. This implication is that one should give
rest, share, or be sanctioned?
As these sequences are piled up more and more, we learn more
and more about them individually, in part, totally, and in whole.
Add the genesis and
early history of this as a dealing with the trauma of Mom. Eve of the
Circumcision of Our Lord, Dec. 31, A. D. 2005. 4 Gs, and ‘care’ chronology, the
Via Pellarosa.
HTMYCB
(The Pella Square) would narratively disciple all parties, uniting them on what
to do going forward--and on whence we have come.
All
kinds of communities.
Praise
the Lord.
Love
in King Jesus,
Chuck
I
believe Herovolution. God lovingly drags us into His future, changing us.
As we are chosen to be torn in the present between the future and the past,
between in and out, our howl becomes music, and we the singing song.
(Faintly: Rests—absences—are as important as notes—presences.)
"Come, let us
return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us
down, and he will bind us up" (Hos. 6:1)
The hero is the
protagonist, the first sufferer, the one between the ages. He Helps Explicitly
Reconcile Opposites.
Chapter
5 of Gardner’s
‘Beyond Belief’ and The Complete Cross of Reality are very valuable.
North has a component here:
http://www.garynorth.com/members/9056.cfm
[Members only] The
basic view is that the powers that be [we war against higher ones] have money,
power and an old boy network. The latter
is crumbling, based on educational exams: the acid at its base is 'I can get if
for you cheaper'. Jews, Armenians, Scots, Dutchmen and now Asians. Two keys:
Live and let live. Let’s make a deal.
[But we war against higher ones: 'Who Rules the Land?'.
'Crisis, Opportunity and the Christian
Future'. Sung liturgy, same prayers every week, chanted Psalms.]
Love in King Jesus,
Chuck
