{"id":411,"date":"2005-10-10T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T19:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2005-10-11T06:27:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T14:27:39","slug":"pastor-is-your-church-too-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/10\/pastor-is-your-church-too-small","title":{"rendered":"Pastor, Is Your Church Too Small?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/gallery2\/d\/6433-1\/2002-04-18-inside-enzyte.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"He even looks a little like a pastor...\" class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.unc.edu\/directory\/gradstudents\/adamlong\">Adam Long<\/a> recent\u00adly emailed this to me and some oth\u00ader friends and with his per\u00admis\u00adsion I post it here for the world to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>A dis\u00adclaimer: I don\u2019t know any\u00adthing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartleadership.com\/default.asp\">Nel\u00adson Searcy<\/a>. He\u2019s prob\u00ada\u00adbly a great guy who has very help\u00adful insights. The com\u00admen\u00adtary below isn\u2019t about him or his ministry\u2013it\u2019s about his mar\u00adket\u00ading. In fact, it\u2019s about the way most min\u00adistry train\u00ading is mar\u00adket\u00aded. And it\u2019s pret\u00adty fun\u00adny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a long run\u00adning prob\u00adlem with the con\u00adfla\u00adtion of cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adist mar\u00adket\u00ading and church life. Yes, yes, I believe in redeem\u00ading the cul\u00adture. No, no, I\u2019m not a Marx\u00adist. But I think that we may be head\u00ading down a dan\u00adger\u00adous road. And we need to think things through before div\u00ading in.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s my prob\u00adlem. I think there\u2019s too much sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty between mar\u00adket\u00ading for \u201cchurch growth\u201d ser\u00advices and male enhance\u00adment prod\u00aducts.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t dis\u00admiss this. I\u2019m not try\u00ading to be unnec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly provoca\u00adtive. I don\u2019t com\u00adplete\u00adly buy Freud, but so much church growth mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal seems to tap a cer\u00adtain form of envy that strikes many males.<\/p>\n<p>Just take a look at the fol\u00adlow\u00ading quotes from the attached piece, \u201cWHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT A COACHING COMMUNITY WITH NELSON SEARCY.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assim\u00adi\u00adla\u00adtion has been huge!!!<\/li>\n<li>I was slump\u00ading in my per\u00adson\u00adal growth <\/li>\n<li>This would have saved me sev\u00ader\u00adal years of frus\u00adtra\u00adtion<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t have to be alone, do it alone<\/li>\n<li>Coach\u00ading Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty gave me more con\u00adfi\u00addence, com\u00adpe\u00adten\u00adcy<\/li>\n<li>Do it!  It is worth expo\u00adnen\u00adtial\u00adly more than the fees!<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t miss this oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to grow your\u00adself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard peo\u00adple com\u00adpare TBN to the Home Shop\u00adping Net\u00adwork. It\u2019s so easy to make fun of oth\u00aders as long as their reli\u00adgious style dif\u00adfers from ours. But what hap\u00adpens when \u201cour\u201d groups sound like Enzyte com\u00ader\u00adcials? Seri\u00adous\u00adly? What do we do?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The uber-wit\u00adty <a href=\"http:\/\/swfamilyfellowship.com\/OurL.cfm\">Antho\u00adny Sco\u00adma<\/a> replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That is hilar\u00adi\u00adous, but you missed the best line, My being chal\u00adlenged as a leader has raised \u201cthe bar\u201d for lead\u00aders in our church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Long recent\u00adly emailed this to me and some oth\u00ader friends and with his per\u00admis\u00adsion I post it here for the world to enjoy. A dis\u00adclaimer: I don\u2019t know any\u00adthing about Nel\u00adson Searcy. He\u2019s prob\u00ada\u00adbly a great guy who has very help\u00adful insights. The com\u00admen\u00adtary below isn\u2019t about him or his ministry\u2013it\u2019s about his mar\u00adket\u00ading. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/10\/pastor-is-your-church-too-small\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cPas\u00adtor, Is Your Church Too Small?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assemblies-of-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}