The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director. Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year. God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
Larry was preaching a message one Sunday morning about people taking care to be wise in selecting a marriage partner. Too often, people focus on everything but the potential mate's spiritual walk. We've counseled enough disasters to know that you can't be too careful in making sure your future mate has a close walk with God.
In this sermon he referenced Rachel and Leah in the Bible, and Jacob thinking he was getting one girl, but really got another. He went on for quite a while that Sunday morning admonishing all the single people to be careful about who they date and ultimately marry. And then he says, "young men in this place today...before you marry a girl, you need to know what she's really all about, and just like you would with a car...you need to check under the hood first to make sure of what you're getting!"
Well, the congregation roared!! They took it to mean, "look underneath her clothes" or whatever, but he didn't mean that at all, of course. He meant, "check underneath the hood spiritually - see what's inside." But nobody would stop laughing long enough to hear it and the more he talked, the deeper in trouble he got, so finally he just went on to the next point and left the whole "check underneath the hood" issue behind but people were still giggling.
The teen boys in particular have had a grand time teasing my husband saying that they are going to use the excuse with their girlfriends that "Pastor says I need to check underneath your hood before I marry you..." LOL [sigh]
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