The way we describe the Plumbline team is that we are ideologically driven and relationally connected. That means there is no visible organization to join, there are no meetings to go to, and no regulations that you have to promise to follow.
How it works out in real life is that people plug into some facet of Plumbline material and begin implementing it. Then they get stuck. When you call us for help, we either give you a short answer or connect you to someone else in Plumbline who has niche expertise in the area that you need.
What happens next goes one of two ways. If there is chemistry in the connection, the two Plumbliners develop a relationship quite apart from the task at hand and they nurture it themselves without my help or supervision. If there is no chemistry, then you remain professional acquaintances who can be called upon from time to time to render mutual aid.
Over time, you yourselves will become known as people who have some particular niche strength of your own, and we will send people to you. The process plays out all over again from the other direction as you make an installment payment on the debt of love you owe the Body of Christ.
So there is absolutely no central command and control. We Plumbliners are professional enough that we help each other as needed within reason, always seeking to equip the person in need rather than doing their work for them. And where there is chemistry, relationships bloom.
So the bottom line is, just do something. Find some road kill to heal or a porcupine to hug. Fight a war or build a destiny. Get in over your head. Then call us and we will see if there is someone who shares your passion who could run a lap with you.
If you don’t have dirt under your fingernails and some blood stains on your priestly robes from hauling around a grubby Samaritan, you aren’t ready to be a Plumbliner – you are still sitting in the bleachers.
In other words, go be dangerous. That is the primary credential of a Plumbliner.
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