I enjoy a tv show on the food network, Restaurant Impossible. They are interesting but there is a main theme that runs thru the whole thing. These restaurants are established, many times family operations handed down, generations, legacy, but people don't come any more. It's about to close. They wonder why people stay away. They do because the service is not good, the place is stuck, the food... is ordinary, it lacks the 100 little things that make an ordinary restaurant an extraordinary restaurant. I know nothing about the restaurant business, I know something about the Church. I know this. IF a church wonders why people no longer attach themselves, it's not the Church (restaurant) down the street's success, it's their failure to do the 100 little things. This truly is about many failing churches today. They are just like failing restaurants. Here's the key issue. NO ONE OWNS the people who make a choice to come to your church. They vote by the SPIRIT with their feet. They are no longer content to be served poorly, at high prices, bad food, in a stuffy arrogant distant atmosphere by "owners" who think it's their God Given right to their patronage. Its time to wake up Church...you are the representative of a Great High God and you have made it a fast food dive. Read This:
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Seth's Blog: A hundred little things

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One of my favorite restaurants is a little Mexican place in Utah called El Chubasco. I've often eaten there twice in a day, and once (it's true) ate there three times. It's always crowded. Sometimes people wait outside, in the...