More random musings on the state of the world. Today I read that Shane Warne is considering calling in his psychologist to explain how the leg-spinner’s weight problems led to him taking a banned drug (a diuretic).

Is this for real? Is this news? Whatever you think of Shane Warne (I personally think that he is either a drug cheat or very stupid), why is this even considered relevant to the decision of the ICC? Either he took it or he didn’t, either it was banned or it wasn’t. But so much energy is spent on blaming others for this action - my mum gave it to me, it was because of my weight problems, I have a psychological condition.

It makes me think of all the things I have seen happen in churches where so much energy is spent analysing a church’s growth or relevance from someone else’s perspective and on someone else’s criteria, that no energy is left over for actually doing anything.

I was reading a presentation from a church the other day which said in effect - nothing worked!! We tried alpha and a kids club and all of the fashionable ministries and it didn’t make a difference - we still weren’t growing. Therefore, the answer must be that we need to move down the road and build a big building - if we build it they will come.

The church has heaps of excuses for why things don’t work out - the building doesn’t look modern enough, our worship band doesn’t have a drumkit, we don’t have a youth minister, there are too many other churches in this area - all relatively superficial things that can be changed without rocking our paradigm. Why can’t we look at the very real problems and issues we have with our existing model and rethink what it means to be church?

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