Reminder to self:
No matter how productive it feels, 95% of content consumption is procrastination.
Unless you can pinpoint the exact reason you're consuming something (and what bottleneck it is helping you remove), there is a better way to spend your time.
If all those 1000's of hours we spent on sermon prep and worship set lists instead were spent on building discipleship pathways and cultivating tables in the neighborhood... we'd have a very different Church today.
I used to believe the extremely common mantra in evangelicalism: “the local church is the hope of the world.” It took a conversation with @DianeLangberg to realize the narcissism of this statement.
The church IS NOT the hope of the world, Jesus is, & those aren’t the same.
Dear churches,
Saying something was wrong, is not the same as apologizing for having allowed it, personally done it, or covering it up.
Sincerely,
Survivors everywhere
#SBCtoo
@antmccrossan@nicholasroche Y’all are the absolute BEST! Love the commentary, all the little details and facts. Somehow you’re making even a boring stage a lot of fun!
The more I fall in love with Jesus, the more I marvel at the way he would meet people where they were - while gently challenging them in the direction of Shalom (justice & wholeness).
This must be our approach in mobilizing other Christians to seek justice too.
I’ve learned over 13 yrs of marriage that I have to announce myself before I enter a room to talk to my wife. Because if I walk in at a normal volume and just say her name she will jump and turn around and shout as if I were an axe murderer every time.
College graduation speeches are often evergreen. They can be given at any time, similar from decade to decade.
Which is why Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker’s “How To Spot An Idiot” at Northwestern’s graduation is so genius.
It is the speech for TODAY
In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.