Joseph Myers argues organic order leads to sustainability in his book Organic Community. The premise of the book is "creating a place where people naturally connect." Myers argues that organic community creates these spaces better than master planning. He compellingly advocates moving from a programmer mentality to an environmentalist mentality in order to create healthy community.

Chatper 9 Lanuage brings the entire book together if you can grasp what Myers is arguing for. His desire is to move from a noun-centric to verb-centric community. This causes us to stop limiting things like God and community when we stop referring to them as nouns. Nouns put boxes around concepts we wish to grasp. We can never fully grasp God. I think this is where Myers would suggest we approach God like a verb. Organic community is the same. There is organic order but not order in the sense of formulas and lists that restrict us from growing when the demands are not met.

Sometimes leaders put their faith in master plans because they have greater faith in master plans than they do people. D.M. McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y asserts that a leaders' view of the subordinate is conditioned by his/her world-view. Theory X assumes people are incapable of achieving goals and need to be heavily directed while Theory Y assumes people are capable of achieving goals individually.

Organic community needs Theory Y leaders. People are created in the image of God and are very capable of fulfilling the plans He has for them. Theory Y leaders guide through encouragement while theory X leaders guide by controlling. Leaders are not in place to control anything. They are in place to direct. There is a difference.

Community cannot exist without story. Stories enable leaders to form a better picture of the health of a community than numbers alone ever could. To often master planning relies on success by the numbers. Numbers really do not qualitatively capture growth. Stories do. If stories are spreading through the community then this means growth is evident. You could have a church of 10000 but if they only showed up on Sunday and that was it then does it even matter? Remember, a growing community needs growing leaders.