MANY OF US ARE LONELY In his book “Everybody’s Normal till you get to know them”, author John Ortberg cites an experiment conducted by Suzy Becker where she asked primary school children to solve some of the world’s biggest problems: How do we help people to stop smoking? What can we do about global warming? […]
From what I can tell, there is one extremely ineffective & damaging way to try and motivate people, and four very effective ways to try and motivate people. INEFFECTIVE >> GUILT, CRITICISM & FEAR This is by far the most common form of motivation. Churches & Christian Leaders are especially good at this. But we see […]
In no particular order… 1) WHAT CANNOT BE DONE AT FIRST, CAN BE DONE THROUGH PRAYER – I have seen so many specific, undeniable answers to prayer, that it’s literally impossible to write them off as coincidence. – I used to believe in the supernatural because of the Bible, but more & more I find […]
PRACTICAL STEPS ‘SEEKER SENSITIVE’ VS. ‘EXCELLENCE’ The first thing that needs to be clarified about ‘seeker-sensitive services’ is that they do not necessarily have to value ‘excellence’ or feel like a ‘performance’. Consider the following table… It is possible to have a service that values ‘excellence’, but only caters for believers (Quadrant 1). It is […]
THE SEARCH FOR APPROVAL From the moment we’re born, we long for approval. So we head out in search of love and acceptance. We do whatever we can to… > Get lots of likes on Instagram > Be as good looking as we can possibly be > Appear intelligent > Be successful > Get people’s […]
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