Tensions Churches Must Tame

Introduction

• As culture evolves around this body of Christ, there will be emerging tensions which will arise.
• These tensions will create struggle around:
  • Sacred   Type a label   – “love this”
  • Ritual behaviors – “used to this”
  • Personal   Type a label   – “comfortable with this”
• Questions to answer:
  • What goes? / What   Type a label   ?
  • What’s right? / What’s wrong?
  • What’s good? / What’s   Type a label   ?

Technology: New Opportunities, New Problems

• Geofencing – strategic targeting
  • Online / reels
• New levels of communication
  • 24/7
• Technology cannot supplant   Type a label   .
  • How we contact.
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  • When we contact.
• Words must be crafted to avoid misunderstanding.
  • If you wouldn’t say it in public to everyone – don’t text it in   Type a label   .
• Boundaries must be defined and enforced.
• The test of   Type a label   .
  • The speed of technology exceeds the growth of your character.
  • When what you read online is more meaningful than what God’s   Type a label   says.
  • The impulse to share a story compels you more than pausing and reflecting before God.

Talent is Harder

• For Gen Z, we are their   Type a label   job.
• Don’t assume they   Type a label   .
  • Basics are advanced.
  • The Big 5
• There are no   Type a label   trophies
  • Message and model
• Training and   Type a label   
  • The norm
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• Teams Help

Team Challenges

• Never pay for a bad attitude.
• Center of   Type a label   
• Culture
  • Hire for   Type a label   . Promote for   Type a label   .

Transformation has been lost to Information

• Overwhelm with facts but change with   Type a label   .
• Reels make us known but ministry makes Him known.
• I’m old school: Prayer is more important than the   Type a label   .
  • Prayer promotes   Type a label   . Platform promotes .

Discipline versus Sacrifice

• Discipline must lead to   Type a label   .
  • Discipline is doing what you have to do.
  • Sacrifice is doing more than you are required to do.
• Do something Jesus did   Type a label   ask you to do.
• The attitude of “just enough” as become pervasive.

Times are Intense

• Type a label   – Everything is faster.
• Volume – So much more.
• Type a label   – Diversity of stuff.