November 4, 2013 · 57:55 · 11 min
Yes be yes: the church's commitment problem
The conversation extends the 'yes be yes' point into church culture: people make promises they never keep, from ministry commitments to a pamphlet review returned three days late. The hosts contrast the 85% who reflexively say no with the overloaded 15% who do everything, warning against both people-pleasing and noncommitment. They circle back to guilt versus conviction with the orphan statistic -- roughly 153 million orphans, and if a quarter of professing Christians adopted one the crisis would end -- arguing conviction calls you to act one person at a time rather than attack the whole culture.