Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• By
• Dr. Tom Cheyney

www.BoomerangChurches.com
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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!
(Youll fit right in.)

• Making any kind of lasting change in a church
  revitalization effort will not make you all that
  popular during the transition times.
• Its kind of the he who calls the shots takes
  the shots kind of idea!
• While you are making a difference there will be
  those who will get upset with you often! I can
  attest to that fact many times over.
• Criticism usually comes as well while you are
  committed to the task of Church Revitalization.

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• You will be attacked often for what is being
  accomplished!
• So just remember Everybody Loves You When You
  are Mediocre!

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• Nothing good goes unpunished or to phrase it
  better Positive leadership results will usually
  also produce resistance and criticism!

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• Acknowledged, is the fact that there appears to
  me at least that the work of church
  revitalization and recreating congregation
  vitality is a key ingredient in building the
  whole Kingdom of God!
• I love Church Planting! It stirs my soul, but I
  do not believe that the Lord my God had it in
  mind to let existing churches wilt away and cease
  to be important to His worldwide mission of
  redemption.

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• Who Loves You Baby? It might have been Telley
  Suvallais who coined the phrase, but at the end
  of the day it is Jesus Christ who loves His
  church!

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• Since we are approaching the Olympics in just a
  short time, I smile with Bella Karoly when his
  Olympian, Natalie Korbit was such a phenomenon.
  They were just kicking him in the mouth because
  he worked all of his female athletes so hard.
  They produced, but he was fond of saying
  Everybody loves you when you are mediocre!
• The Point Matthew 511 Blessed are you when
  men shall revile you and persecute you and say
  all manner of evil against you falsely for my
  name sake. You are going to take your licks
  while you are renewing the Lords work. Stick to
  it never-the-less.

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Everybody Loves You When You are Mediocre!

• By
• Dr. Tom Cheyney

www.BoomerangChurches.com