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- If you ever draw a line in the sand and say,
we are gonna go in this direction,
there's always gonna be people that come back and say,
well, why do we have to make a choice?
Why don't we just do both?
So, if you're talking to your leadership team,
or really with anyone and say, you know what,
we need to prioritize our online presence more
rather than our physical presence,
and someone will come back to you and say,
why don't we just do both?
The problem with that argument, with that line of logic
is that we as churches,
we know how limited we are when it comes to our resources.
Time, money, volunteers,
we're working with limited resources.
So, you can only say let's just do both
a certain number of times.
It's like in an old video game,
you've got a certain amount of lives,
when you use them up, you're done.
At some point, you've gotta come to the table
and actually make a firm decision.
You've got to make the tough choice,
sacrifice something in favor of something else.
The easy answer is to just say,
let's just do both.
But at a certain point, that answer becomes naive,
because you can't say yes to everything.
At some point, you've gotta start saying no to stuff.
So, always be aware of that.
Every time you say yes, let's do both to a tough decision,
that means eventually you're saying no to something else.
What are you saying no to?
Because you can't do both in every instance,
and in most cases, you can't do both in any instance.