I came to Milwaukee in 1987 as the head pastor of a downtown church. In my sermon at the installation service, I named two issues that I believed were critical to Milwaukee's future, economically and spiritually -- race relations and the kinds of jobs that would sustain our economy during a time of change.Twenty years later, I could give the same sermon, with the same result.
Assuming he's right, he presumably could have written this piece in 1987 about a sermon given twenty years before.
Insanity is defined as doing the same things long after it is clear they do not work.
For example, his article repeating his sermon.
We are not called to be successful (though that would be very nice!); we are called to be faithful.
ReplyDeleteHere's a comment on another variation of your false dichotomy:
ReplyDelete"Oh, I get it. If you're pleased that because your community is growing, more children are being taught and poor being served and a vibrant spiritual center in your community is growing and providing what vibrant spiritual centers have provided for two millenia of monastic and religious life...STOP IT, YOU CRASS AMERICAN CAPITALIST, YOU!"
--Amy Welborn