New people bring all sorts of observations and questions about things that don’t work and we’ve gotten used to. Dan Rockwell counters the waste of energy in defending what isn’t working. Stop defending what isn’t working: #1. New eyes see and state the obvious. Gradual development is less effective when you’re stuck. Bluntness creates tipping …
Corporate worship not as individual experience in the gathered body, or as common experience among the many, but as a shared experience that reveals the relationships and community that exist in Christ. From Zac Hicks’ The Worship Pastor: Part of loving the church well is reminding her that she is a community. in our day …
Sometimes things don’t work out in church the way we plan them. Not so much with candles in our case, I have to admit. The way the prayer resumes is priceless.
This Today I Found Out video tells the story of Coca-Cola’s spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to replace their original formula signature product propelled it to greater heights of popularity. The part about people’s reaction to finding out they preferred the new formula to the old is particularly amusing, too.
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