We lack the courage to create the new; we only try to destroy the old.
The best critique of the bad is to make something better.
The reason the church is so uncreative is because the church is so uncaring. Out of concern comes creativity.
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Erwin McManus, Idea Camp; Irvine 2009 (Each of these lines were in the same talk, but weren’t actually next to each other.)
I was going through my notes from this conference yesterday and found these thoughts. It really hit me hard when he said these things, and I immediately started to put these challenges into action. I’m beginning to ask myself if somehow I’ve plateaued again, though, and if it might be time to step it up again.
