September 30, 2011
Lou Holtz shared a great piece on conference realignment this past week. I thought how his statements related to the local church and rewrote it to fit. Here it is.
When you bring a group of people together that is a start,
When they stay together that is progress;
When they work together that is success.
This axiom proves true whether you are talking about a business, a team, or a church.
I went to school basically to eat my lunch, but even I can understand that there are certain people who are not working with other members of the church to make it better. They are looking out for their own interest. Now, I don’t dispute that they have the right to do this, but that does not make it right. Doesn’t anybody stop and look at the devastation that it brings on the other members of the church who are left to pick up the pieces?
People ask me, “what is the difference between church members today and 40 years ago?” I say the same difference as in society. Today everybody wants to talk about their rights and their privileges. Forty years ago people talked about their obligations and their responsibilities.
Harry Truman said, “the freedom to swing your fist ends where the other guy’s nose begins.” Your freedom to do what you want to do ends with your commitment and responsibility to other people.
Now the church’s primary responsibility is to continue the ministry of Jesus Christ to all people. We are His body and are to carry on His work with His attitude.
We would be so much better off if everyone would stop and say, “What is the right thing to do?” and then do it. The “right thing to do” is not determined by what “I think” or “I feel,” but on what God says in His Bible.
There is never a right time to do the wrong thing, and there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
Lou Holtz shared a great piece on conference realignment this past week. I thought how his statements related to the local church and rewrote it to fit. Here it is.
When you bring a group of people together that is a start,
When they stay together that is progress;
When they work together that is success.
This axiom proves true whether you are talking about a business, a team, or a church.
I went to school basically to eat my lunch, but even I can understand that there are certain people who are not working with other members of the church to make it better. They are looking out for their own interest. Now, I don’t dispute that they have the right to do this, but that does not make it right. Doesn’t anybody stop and look at the devastation that it brings on the other members of the church who are left to pick up the pieces?
People ask me, “what is the difference between church members today and 40 years ago?” I say the same difference as in society. Today everybody wants to talk about their rights and their privileges. Forty years ago people talked about their obligations and their responsibilities.
Harry Truman said, “the freedom to swing your fist ends where the other guy’s nose begins.” Your freedom to do what you want to do ends with your commitment and responsibility to other people.
Now the church’s primary responsibility is to continue the ministry of Jesus Christ to all people. We are His body and are to carry on His work with His attitude.
We would be so much better off if everyone would stop and say, “What is the right thing to do?” and then do it. The “right thing to do” is not determined by what “I think” or “I feel,” but on what God says in His Bible.
There is never a right time to do the wrong thing, and there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
