Operating from Theory

Many years ago I accepted a position as sales & marketing manger in a small electronics company. The product was a computer peripheral that appeared to solve a real problem for digital designers. This was early in the computer market. I had an idea of how to go to market. I didn’t know how short our financial runway was.

My position turned out to have been superseded by a newer way of going to market. We had no time. We went out of business.

I bet most of us have entered something with a fixed idea of how it works or what it means. 

“I am sure that Jesus meant this when he said that,” only to face a question when someone asks, “But what about this?”

What would you do when confronted with another way of approaching something? Maybe a new way of reading Paul’s letters. Maybe a new way of thinking about what church really is. Maybe a new way of organizing your life.

The key question:

Do we have the courage to face a new thought and consider how we might change?

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