This is a great video by Paul Washer on the manipulation done in today’s church invitation system at the end of services.  Watch and listen closely…great stuff!

“That’s what the cults do.” - Paul Washer

“Many people think that because they prayed a prayer, walked an aisle once in their life, and/or raised their hand when all the heads are bowed because their “autonomous” emotions convinced them to at a certain point in time that they are saved even though they live as worldly and carnal as everyone else in the world. My question is “When do we just start saying that if a person continues in unbelief, worldliness, and carnality regardless of what they did at a point in time then the are unbelieving, a worldling, and carnal? Do we really need votes that much as to forsake their soul?” We need preachers like Paul Washer; not politicians behind pulpits.”

• The car is never clean enough. For those who also use “the mobile tack room”, it is impossible to keep it clean enough for everyone else’s comfort.

Lesson learned: Invest in plastic covers for the seats, floors, dashboards, and other upholstery items in the car.

Life seems to have become so focused on how much more you can take on.  How much more you can do.  How much more you can acquire.

But all too often, we mistake complexity for progress.

Whereas complexity merely spreads us thin, dilutes our efforts, and leaves us nowhere farther than before (just distributed amongst more places), progress is where we find ourselves moving forward in general.

If all we do is take on more and more projects, tasks, responsibilities, ad infinitum, then all we’ll do is face an increasingly insurmountable set of obstacles in our life.  We’ll be doing more, but accomplishing less.

Businesses face this problem as much as people do in their own personal lives.  Families, societies, organizations, and individuals alike must ask themselves if they’re trying to do too much.

But how do you discern distractions?  How do you know if adding something to your “agenda” is helping you progress along your path, or merely taking your eyes off your goal.

I’ve found that dilemma is often overcome by one specific thing… clarity of purpose.  The clearer your purpose, the more stark each opportunity will be in whether it propels you toward your destination, or inhibits your progress by diluting your efforts.

If you truly want to be remarkable in something, then learn to focus your energies.  Figure out what you want to do, or who you want to become, and then measure all things against that. 

As you focus your life, as you simplify, you’ll find that not only can you move faster, but you’ll enjoy the ride so much more.

Rusty

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