One of the first lessons I learned about church from our Disney trip was this: Excellence is everywhere!
Everywhere you look at Disney, it's excellent! The staff, the decor, the rides, the food... If they do it, they do it with excellence. If they can't do it with excellence, they don't do it.
Somewhere along the line, the Disney team has figured out that people will not drop thousands of dollars per family for mediocrity. Apparently, they recognize that there's more than enough mediocrity to go around!
The excellence of Disney is so far-reaching that they absolutely dominate their market! For example: ask the kids in your life what their favorite princess is... Betcha they answer with the name of a Disney enterprise. (I'm having a hard time thinking of a princess who's NOT a Disney character even sitting here.)
I don't have any idea what led them to make this discovery about the power of excellence, but it's obvious they're fully committed to it!
I wonder what kind of effect we could have in the Church of Jesus Christ if we could get a grasp on this principle. (Insert "Ouch!" here.)
I have seen so many times when we try to do something just to say we're doing it, but then give only minimal effort & the result is completely sub-par! Then, when it fails (& mediocrity just always does!), we blame it on anything (& everything) but our mediocrity.
This MUST grieve the heart of God... We've got the greatest message ever & the only one that gives hope! But we treat it like some fly-by-night, one-hit-wonder, low-budget, B-movie.
What if we committed to do everything we do with excellence, or not at all? What if we committed to treat the Gospel like it actually is the Greatest Story Ever Told?
What if we began treating a relationship with Jesus Christ like an Excellent Adventure?
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