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I was told today that the mission strategy of some Anglican churches has been as follows “everybody of good taste will eventually become an Anglican!” Whilst a bit of a joke, it has also been semi-serious as well. Therefore little or no effort has been made to welcome or invite people. Anglicans are not alone in thinking that their […]
Church leader’s sometimes ask me, why their congregations can appear so apathetic to mission. Apathy is a masking agent. A masking agent is a reagent used in chemical analysis which reacts with chemical species that may interfere in the analysis. In sports a masking agent is used to hide or prevent detection of a banned substance […]
Sometimes we don’t invite because we fear the difficult question in an interaction with someone without Christ in their lives. But serial inviters are not afraid to ask for clarification if they don’t understand something. They try and make clear what the person they are interacting with is thinking. Clarification is a wonderful tool for the […]
I woke up this morning with an urge to reread the story of the children of Israel sending twelve spies into the promised land of Canaan. Ten of the spies said that we seemed grasshoppers in our own eyes and we seemed the same to them. In other words they were really scared! The other […]
In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing more urgent actions with tasks less urgent, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time. We sometimes prefer avoiding negative emotions, and delaying a stressful task. We might be afraid of an overwhelming task and we don’t know where […]
A personal trainer is a fitness professional involved in exercise prescription and instruction. They motivate clients by setting goals and providing feedback and accountability to clients. Trainers also measure their client’s strengths and weaknesses with fitness assessments. They themselves have a physique which shows that they take their own advice. Now would you hire a […]
We all have seen the vivid imagination of our younger children when they jump in the air for example and believe they have just flown. This vivid imagination does stay with us as adults but it at times and for the most creative minds it turns them into authors, artists, song writers, entrepreneurs. But for others our vivid […]