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Are you sticky?
By Jeremy | January 17, 2007
Six principles (“SUCCESâ€Â) ... link sticky ideas ["ideas that people understand, remember, and that change the way people think or behave"] of all kinds. Sticky ideas won’t always have all six, but the more, the merrier. For example, JFK’s idea to “put a man on the moon in a decade†had all six of them: 1. Simple - A single, clear mission. 2. Unexpected - A man on the moon? It seemed like science fiction at the time. 3. Concrete - Success was defined so clearlyâ€â€no one could quibble about man, moon, or decade. 4. Credible - This was the President of the U.S. talking. 5. Emotional - It appealed to the aspirations and pioneering instincts of an entire nation. 6. Story - An astronaut overcomes great obstacles to achieve an amazing goal.+ Is your Pentecostal church losing its kids? The New York Times investigates.
As Pentecostalism advances across the world, winning converts faster than any other Christian denomination and siphoning believers from more established faiths, it is also suffering its own slow leak: young people who are falling away from the faith. Mainline Christian churches have grappled with the problem for years. And recently, evangelical leaders in the United States sounded an alarm over “an epidemic of young people leaving.†But the loss is doubly distressing for Pentecostals, evangelical Christians who can be especially zealous in seeking new members and rejecting the secular culture they feel is luring adolescents away from religion.
Topics: faith, ideas, legacy, news, pentecostalism | 1 Comment »
January 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Without any disrespect to the author but Duh. I have been very involved in the Pentacostol church and its legalistic ways for a very long time since my marriage in 2000 to Miriam Matias Barnes.
Her mother is a pillar to this historic community and hasn’t changed since her first prayer. She still prays at the hours of 3 to 5 am for her family, friends and sinners of the world. She is the example of commitment to the culture but I think in many ways all churches in the rural areas of our community and our neighboring citys just don’t sense the importance of being saved. With all of the accusations in the past few years and the lack of leadership have left the kids with nothing to look forward too.
If we don’t see God Move in a mighty way soon there won’t be any young people infected enough by the Holy Spirit to influence those after them.