Links To Go (February 28, 2018)

A Call to Worship in the Face of Fear

But I know and believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that we love the children deeply and will do anything for them. So I challenge us all today to be the spiritual leaders they need. To encourage them to love God and love their neighbors. To rise above the drama and darkness that plagues us on social media platforms and in our communities. To turn off the news and open our Bibles. To return to God and commit our children to him. To encourage them to join youth groups and to get back into a church group ourselves.


Church planting is not the ultimate goal

As your church grows, those moving into your town or city consider joining your church too. But much of it seems to be large amounts of transfer growth and limited growth by conversion. At some point, we’ve got to ask some hard questions. Some of those questions need to include, why is our growth not coming by conversion? Why, by the same token, are we pouring our resources into churches that appear to largely cater for Christian transfer growth?


The Top 8 Reasons Most Churches Never Break The 200 Attendance Mark

  1. Small Churches Are Structured To Stay Small
  2. The Pastor Does Everything
  3. The Pastor Is The Primary Caregiver
  4. You Don’t Have The Right People
  5. Too Many Doers, Not Enough Leaders
  6. The Team Is Not Aligned
  7. Micro-Management
  8. The Leaders Make Too Many Excuses

The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community

What this provisional data appears to show is that when isolated people who have health problems are supported by community groups and volunteers, the number of emergency admissions to hospital falls spectacularly. While across the whole of Somerset emergency hospital admissions rose by 29% during the three years of the study, in Frome they fell by 17%. Julian Abel, a consultant physician in palliative care and lead author of the draft paper, remarks: “No other interventions on record have reduced emergency admissions across a population.”


Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond hearings.
It’s a profound loss for those immigrants appealing what are sometimes indefinite detentions by the government. Many are held for long periods of time — on average, 13 months — after being picked up for things as minor as joyriding. Some are held even longer.


Speaking in a Foreign Language Can Impact Your Moral Judgment

Ethical integrity means practicing consistent values from one situation to the next—at least, that’s what you might strive for if you’re someone who prides yourself on having a strong moral compass. But a new study suggests that being consistent with our morals is even more complicated than you may think it is. As Quartz reports, personal morality can be influenced by something as seemingly arbitrary as the language you’re using.


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