• Top 10 Best Questions To Ask A Local Person When Travelling

    1 – Where can I find the most spiritual place in the city.
    2 – What is the taste of the city and where can I get some?
    3 – What’s the best place in town that visitors never go to?
    4 – Where would you go to get the definitive photograph of the city?
    5 – What is the best beach/green place round here?
    6 – What makes people laugh here?
    7- Where is the prettiest place to go for a walk?
    8 – Where is the place that most makes you happy?
    9 – What makes people come and live here and why?
    10 – Why did they build it right here?

3 responses to “So out of touch”

  1. Tim Avatar

    The *other* half of that `presbyterian model’ quote is truly barf-worthy especially given several unpleasant incidents hitting the press in the past 6 months.

    I think `Whenever there are progressive values around’ might be happening at the level of society as a whole, not just in churches, though.

  2. kelvin Avatar

    I’d rather like to think that it would be obvious to people in the various churches that no one system owns a “reflection, consultation, debate and discernment” model. Such ways of working can be found in different churches. Failures to work in such ways call also be found in different church systems.

  3. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    We are hijacked by people who scream and scream until they are sick (they can, you know) and lack the guts to say ‘Here is the bucket’. The attempt to ‘keep all the balls in the holes’ shows a total lack of any grasp of what leadership means.

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