While the great religious traditions teach the importance of compassion and reconciliation, what is often missing among the adherents of those traditions are practical ways of embodying compassion and striving for reconciliation. Restorative practices are increasingly being appropriated in local congregations as they offer effective mechanisms for compassionate communication and restoration of relationships.
Chaos Theory and Congregational Life
One reason for congregational decline may be that congregations are still operating on Newtonian principles in a social universe that no longer functions that way.