How to lead through the dip: 1. Change how you think about change. 2. Have the courage to unmake promises. 3. Obsess over the why. 4. Lead with confident uncertainty. #GLS20
Our word "cemetery" is from the Greek word κοιμητήριον, which means "a sleeping place." To call it a cemetery is to confess the resurrection. We are saying, "When Christ returns, this will be like a huge bed, where the sleeping will awake, some to life, others to death."
A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.
Are you the kind of person, and is your church the kind of church, about which others in your community might say, "I don't share their beliefs, but I shudder to think about what this city would be like without them?
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world (Francis Schaeffer), and compassion without biblical orthodoxy is surely the most useless thing in the world.
He has the right to interrupt your life. He is the Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants. -Henry Blackaby