According to Edgar Dale, we only retain about 20% of what we hear, but around 80% of what we say to others or communicate through dramatic presentation.
So with regard to scriptural nourishment and a sound biblical worldview in individuals; the net result of a prevailing ‘auditorium career-preaching’ culture within church organisations is this: Skeletons on the pews and fat cats behind the pulpits.
And another thought. When people wonder why I appear to not listen and insist on learning from my own mistakes, this is why: we retain around 90% of what we learn through experience
- I am being an efficient learner.
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Wednesday 24 March 2010
Sunday 14 March 2010
The Implications Of Your Worldview
Bugger. The cerebral gyroscope needs a break on this one. Consider it for a brief moment, then get on with your life.
Anyhow, three things that have interested me this week:
A talk about whether Christians should take anti-depressants
An article called "Detoxing from Church"
A proverb that I heard but cannot find. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
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Anyhow, three things that have interested me this week:
A talk about whether Christians should take anti-depressants
An article called "Detoxing from Church"
A proverb that I heard but cannot find. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
[1413:4471]
Thursday 4 March 2010
Capacity for Grace
In cricket, when you are out, you are out. Bowled, run or caught. In football, you’re given a second chance; yellow card, red card. In baseball, it’s three strikes before you’re out.
I wonder if there has ever been a baseball player who switched sports to cricket. And if so, how he coped without all of those second chances.
When you’re familiar with justice, undeserved acquittal can be a life-changing experience. That’s biblical grace.
But when such grace becomes an over-familiar norm, justice can be an awfully bitter shock to the system.
Jesus told Peter that, if a man “sinned against him”, he should forgive him, not seven times but four hundred and ninety times (seventy times seven). [Bible:Matt18|B'rC:OJB|NT:NIV]
In my experience, when young children are receiving discipline for doing wrong, how many ‘second chances’ they are given can depend largely on the ‘capacity for grace’ worn by the discipliner.
And whether those ‘second chances’ are too many or too few will surely shape that child’s expectations for the future.
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I wonder if there has ever been a baseball player who switched sports to cricket. And if so, how he coped without all of those second chances.
When you’re familiar with justice, undeserved acquittal can be a life-changing experience. That’s biblical grace.
But when such grace becomes an over-familiar norm, justice can be an awfully bitter shock to the system.
Jesus told Peter that, if a man “sinned against him”, he should forgive him, not seven times but four hundred and ninety times (seventy times seven). [Bible:Matt18|B'rC:OJB|NT:NIV]
In my experience, when young children are receiving discipline for doing wrong, how many ‘second chances’ they are given can depend largely on the ‘capacity for grace’ worn by the discipliner.
And whether those ‘second chances’ are too many or too few will surely shape that child’s expectations for the future.
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