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The Top 5 Ministry Excuses You Must Stop Making

1. Our context is different.

Take those four words and burn them.

I live in a country where over 90 percent of people aren’t in church on a weekend and 24 percent now identify as having ‘no religion.’ Many churches are dying, but some are thriving.

Sure it’s hard work, but you can lead a growing church in a dying culture.

Because we are aligned with North Point and Orange, people always ask me how much translates to Canada. I always answer, “About 90 percent.” We listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, watch the same movies and TV shows and pretty much drive the same cars.

If it doesn’t work, we tweak it or change it. But we don’t dwell on the differences. We dwell on what’s effective.

So stop making excuses about your context. Or for goodness sake go invent something that works in your context.

Just stop focusing on what doesn’t work.