
Change: When It Helps and When It Hurts Your Church
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
Social media has changed us. Or maybe it’s just exposed things we’ve kept secretive (but thought of regularly). On social media, we love to use fun acronyms or abbreviations to state the obvious for the masses. If something is humorous, we use LOL (laugh out loud). Or if someone oversteps or meddles, we use MYOB (mind your own business). Want to remind someone of info they may have missed in the noisy past? Use ICYMI (in case you missed it).
I could list dozens of these. We’ve obviously thought them regularly, so people started to quickly abbreviate them. It’s faster to post a few letters and have everyone quickly know the longer meaning.
Social media even has one that sums up this thought: TL;DR (too long; didn’t read). Why? Because EVERYTHING needs to be short or people won’t take the time to get the information. They won’t wade through long information — there’s just far too much content from so many sources. We just don’t have the time!
Church! Wake up. We often over-speak or over-write and people think “sorry, TL;DR” — and once that feeling hits them, it’s too late. We’ve blown it. They’ll never know the important thing we should tell them. This isn’t just social media content either — it’s content during a sermon, in a handout, on a web page, announcements, and even in emails.
It’s a curse. A curse that we can overcome. Here are 5 things you MUST do so that you don’t get cursed with TL;DR:
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
When a legal expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” it followed the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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