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One person approached me yesterday to privately say that nobody was going to bring up the main reason that we are not going to invite. He said that there was an elephant in the room. They went on describe the terrible things that had happened in terms of abuse in recent years in the church in Ireland, a […]
In the reasons that we don’t invite, I may need to add another, for in last night’s feedback someone suggested that inviting to church was not part of Irish Culture. My mind went immediately to St Patrick who invited the Irish people to take a closer look at Christianity. I was reminded however that St […]
In discussion at my seminar last night I heard someone say to the question why are we afraid of the word no, that ‘we guard our hearts against the possibility of rejection’. The Bible tells us that our thoughts often dictate who we become (Proverbs 23:7; 27:19). Just as there are many diseases and disorders that can […]
I am constantly being asked in my Culture of Invitation Seminars ‘What am I inviting my friends to?’ Author Simon Sinek researched the question, what makes certain organisations successful?’ In his presentations Sinek draws three circles.In the outer circle he place the word what. In the middle circle he place the word how and in the […]
Julian Bendo in his book The treason of the intellectual says Academic life used to be about the pursuit of truth and however far short of it you fell, you were always lifted by what you were pursuing. This is the story of how the Jesus discipled his followers by incident. Simon Peter walking on […]
Antonio Damasio one of the world’s most renowned NeuroScientists says ‘the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious there is a risk that we lose the sense of reverence, the risk of looking at science as dehumanised and dehumanising, because you are just explaining everything. No matter how much we know what is […]
Love humbles us, you can’t control when you fall in love. It eliminates the distinction between giving and receiving, for when the person you love gives you a gift, you are doing them the biggest favour by letting them have the pleasure of giving you the gift. It drags you down by humbling and decentering […]
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