Church Choices: Heard From a Millennial Tonight
One of my 20-something friends has had a career move to a state in the Northeast. She’s neither Episcopalian or Anglican—in fact, she has no denominational affiliation. But she did notice a lovely church within walking distance of her place, and after investigation discovered that its “pastor” was a non-celibate gay male.
“So obviously I won’t be going to that one.”
In business, we call such rejection-decisions by potential customers “opportunity costs”—the losses or costs associated with foregoing one choice in order to pursue another choice, or course of action. TEC has chosen the course of secular appeasement, particularly to affirm one particular, currently faddish minority sexual attraction. And as a result, they are experiencing every single day the losses associated with foregoing an alternative course. Those losses are largely “invisible”—they don’t know what might have been, save for anecdotal evidence, and the fact that the numbers continue to decline, without replacement.
“You choose who you lose” is certainly true in business and in churches.
“So obviously I won’t be going to that one.”
In business, we call such rejection-decisions by potential customers “opportunity costs”—the losses or costs associated with foregoing one choice in order to pursue another choice, or course of action. TEC has chosen the course of secular appeasement, particularly to affirm one particular, currently faddish minority sexual attraction. And as a result, they are experiencing every single day the losses associated with foregoing an alternative course. Those losses are largely “invisible”—they don’t know what might have been, save for anecdotal evidence, and the fact that the numbers continue to decline, without replacement.
“You choose who you lose” is certainly true in business and in churches.
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