Everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody�s good idea. At the time it might have been considered revolutionary.
-Andy Stanley, The Next Generation Leader
Month: May 2005 (page 4 of 5)
Some things I found on the way to some other places…
- Life without e-mail?
- Trusting your gut: “when you finally get up there on the bandstand… just wail.”
- “Go” means “go!”
- A whole lotta hype doesn’t mean anything if you can’t deliver when it’s time. (Language alert for some of you.)
It’s been of those kind of days today, and I’m not really sure why…
Running on – running on empty
Running on – running blind
Running on – running into the sun
But I’m running behind
-Jackson Browne, “Running on Empty”
So far in May, this little blog has the 13th (out of 20) highest number of people who have checked out the Cartoon Blog at CartoonChurch.com! Woo hoo!
Hey, give me a break! Everybody needs some reason to celebrate, right?
Seriously, CartoonChurch.com is a neat place that you ought to check out!
OK, thanks to Ken’s recent comment, I’m trying out a new paraphrase as a motto or slogan or guiding principle or whatever…
“Be ye doers of the Word, and not BLOGGERS only!”
OK, it’s not new and fresh anymore – hey, it’s clearance-priced! – but ever since yesterday, I’ve been unable to get enough of this “old” CD! Especially, the last three tracks…”I Could Sing of Your Love Forever,” “Sweet Mercies,” and “We Fall Down.”
Maybe it’s just an earworm. Or maybe God’s trying to tell me something.
WOW! What an opening line! I saw this over at The First Epistle of Mark. It does seem that “everything old is new again” and vice versa. That which we think is new, fresh, hip, happening, cool, dope, sick, clutch, or whatever gets old, stale, dull, square, lame, sketch or whatever pretty quickly.
I wonder why that is. Maybe it’s because we get caught up in being trying to be new, fresh, hip, happening, cool, dope, sick, clutch, or whatever, and forget to be who we were created to be, doing what we were created to do.
This so-called “emerging” church has some real thinkers and doers who may just be blazing the trail to a new reformation and renaissance. But it also has some posers and hangers-on who will be on this kick for a while, then off to the next new, fresh, hip, happening, cool, dope, sick, clutch, or whatever thing that comes along. Maybe I’m one of ’em, who knows?
This ad tears me up!
See, this is the stuff I wish I could do. CartoonChurch, via Church Marketing Sucks, uh, Stinks!
With our emphasis on personal preference and personal expression, the church may be in danger of becoming just another accessory of style. Check out this article from Boundless.