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The future is not a far-off point: It arrives in daily doses that must be noticed and understood.

By Lewis Reader on August 18, 2016

Previous ArticleChurches are reluctant to dampen enthusiasm that members have to take on a new ministry or project. However, often well-meaning people with the best of intentions move out to help without doing enough homework. The result can be insensitivity and ineffectiveness in helping those they intend to serve. A question that can help encourage more conversation and investigation, without discouraging those interested in helping, can be:

What more will we need to learn to do this well?

Next Article Baptist pastor David Hull tells how a right question by the Sunday School Director in his first church helped the pastor appreciate how important it is to count and pay attention to the results of the counting. This church member asked this question:

In Jesus’s parable about the lost sheep, how did the shepherd know that one sheep was missing out of 100 sheep?

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