Back to the more serious stuff today friends.
It struck me just the other day, that is, the danger of living by default.
Merriam Webster’s 5th definition defines default as:
“a selection made usually automatically or without active consideration due to lack of a viable alternative”
Life is so packed with folk working in positions and assuming roles by default - its epidemic. Few consider this to be a danger or even wrong, but I would argue that default living and default methods of selection breed mediocrity, and ultimate failure.
Take The Church for instance:
Just the other day, a trusted friend (who holds ministerial credentials with a mainline denomination) argued that the growing failure of the church – in Ireland alone – is partly do to the fact that the majority of ministers being ordained simply haven’t got what it takes, nor, are have they truly divinely called into position in the first place. By default though, they get through the selection process.
More vacancies that candidates.
I’d love to open this subject right up for discussion, if you were. Maybe you would like to comment on the issue of default living and/or default selection? If so, the floor is open.
Au Revoir,
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Ebrington Church is full of them – no wonder they have about 5 kids left in the Sunday School. Places like that are breeding grounds for "Church Politicians" hoping for their big break into certain positions of authority.
I actually feel appalled that I wasted so many of my youthful hours in places like that – it was mostly the leadership that pushed me so far the opposite direction.
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