I was listening to Dave Ramsey’s podcast that aired March 22, 2018. He was dealing with the news regarding Toys R Us filing for bankruptcy and closing all their stores. Quite naturally, being a person who has built his livelihood around finances and teaching people how to live debt free, he focused on the fact that their huge debt load made it impossible for them to respond to the disruption caused by the advent of Amazon.com. He went on to say that, “Disruptions will come in a business 100% of the time.” His point was that we must be in a position to deal with those disruptions.
As he continued, he told about how that in the 1920’s people had a box in their kitchen called an: Ice Box that they used to store bacon, milk, and other perishable food items. The local ice companies would deliver huge chunks of ice that were placed into the ice box to keep the items cold. But then, Frigidaire invented Freon and the Frigidaire refrigerator. This caused a major disruption in the ice house business. Most of them failed to adjust to the disruption, and consequently, went out of business. However, one ice company adjusted to the disruption and started using their ice house to store and sell perishable food items. Do you know what the name of that store? 7-11.
Disruptions come to all ministries. The question is what will we do when they come? Pastor, my encouraging word to you today is, as best you can without compromising Biblical principles, embrace the disruptions and – adjust. If you don’t, you just may find yourself out of business!
Hey, I prayed for you today and I hope you preach gooooood Sunday!
Let er rip, ‘Tater Chip!
Brother Aaron