In the context of our church going through transition, we're at a point where some big decisions need to be made. Who will lead the body? Are we ready to serve/obey? How much of leadership is specific guidance from God and how much is experience/wisdom? How can we be a missional church? Here's another quote:
“Churches imagine that the less they ask or expect of believers, the more popular they will become and the more contented the worshippers will be. The reverse is true. Those who ask little find that the little they ask is resented or resisted; those who ask much find that they are given much and strengthened by the giving. For it is only as lives begin to intersect in sacrificial ways that the church starts to develop its own internal culture, and it is only in this context that the reality of God will both weigh heavily on the church and be preserved in its life.”David Wells (Author of God in the Wasteland)
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That's a wise quote, and perhaps a message our church needs to hear...so I volunteer you to get up at the front!
I think also people need to see that their service has purpose and is part of a bigger vision.
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