That path leads ever down into stagnation.
If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.
If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.
Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian. '
A church without the broken is a broken church.
Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.
To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.
In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show. . .
Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.