Ziklag W5.22 - Don’t Change

Disorientation is Discouraging

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Anger is hard to stop. cf Pr. 29:22

Some things God wants even more than you do. cf Mt. 8:5

The keystone does not look like a good fit. The tuned warrior does not appear to be fighting. cf Sun Tzu 5.17

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Disorientation is Discouraging

on Smart

The great power of the Fog of Pile is your intuitive psychological knowledge that coming back to the project(s) is not a known quantity.

The Fog of War is a term for the enhanced uncertainty that clouds all battlefield conditions. When life gets real, things “speed up.” This assaults the senses, hinders perception and increases decision-fatigue. Everything is more obscure: enemy movements, capabilities, and even your own plans.

Navigating the Fog of War is as much an art as a science. Success in combat requires not only cold analysis, but adaptation. It is the prudence to exploit crises as opportunities in the midst of ambiguity that makes for consistent victory.

A Pile is not so different.

Not to mention, at a certain point, the only options you really have are retreat or attack.

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from Without Flesh

Don’t Change

Upheaval is all around us. A messy dark age of misinformation, distraction, and willfulness dominates us. Civilization trembles; besieged by gusts and surges. Impregnable institutions are collapsing while, by wit, will, and luck, power brokers ride the waves at a mad pace. In the midst of all this, for anything still trying to call itself a “church,” it is a terrifying time to be in business, much less to actively sail against the tide.

But is any of it truly new? Or do we merely believe it to be so? To be sure, compared to memories of those greener pastures of only a few decades ago, pews are emptier, congregation budgets are dwindled, and church doors are closing. There’s no question about that. It all looks authentically bleak.

Yet what we must consider is what precisely the bleakness means.

Have the times really changed? Is the Church actually dying? Are we truly in danger of being subsumed beneath a new, ominous culture of evil? Or is the only real difference a matter of our perspective? Is the only real change the fact that we have convinced ourselves that times have changed?

Change is often spoken of as if it is its own kind of religion. Some fear it and avoid it at all cost. Others trust it implicitly, regardless of the results. Whichever side of the coin you are on, both parties are too quick to grant “change” near godlike powers. If Christianity is a holy spirituality founded to outlast even the end of the world, aren’t we overreacting a bit? Twitter gets invented, and boom! The almighty dominion of the Lord of Lords is suddenly in question?

What?