Author: Dan Wilt

The Church: Outcome Thinking

What do you hope the Church looks like, feels like, tastes like, in 50-100 years? It’s called Outcome Thinking. Do your best not to simply project your hurts onto the vision you state, but rather think of the end outcome of what is, what could

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Bono At National Prayer Breakfast

For this post, I must step away and let someone else have the floor. The following is a sermon that U2’s Bono (for those who wouldn’t recognize the name… egad) delivered recently to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Well done. BONO’S BEST SERMON YET:

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Repetition in Worship

Tomorrow morning, I am leading worship, and we are reciting the Phos Hilaron (Hilarious, or Gladdening Light) at the opening. I hesitated to use it again, because we’ve done it so many times before. Then I came to my senses. The reason we need to

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The Suspension Of Disbelief

I was with my good friend, Peter Fitch, yesterday at lunch. We were talking about “the teleological suspension of disbelief.” Before you stop reading and gag, let me explain. The “teleological suspension of disbelief” (TSOD for short) is when, for matters of study and analysis,

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