If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.
You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.
If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.