"Too much information coming to my brain. Too much information driving me insane."
Yeah. You read it right. Inspiration overload. The normal phrase is "information overload" and we hear the term often in the culture, media and our conversation. I would say as church communicators gather this week at MinistryCOM, a listening ear might hear this refrain as one person shares their world with another, something like this, "At our church, we just totally suffer from information overload. We just put so much stuff in front of our people - posters, banners, weekly bulletin, monthly newsletter, email blasts, stuff in our lobby, and in their mailboxes, and postcards and...blah, blah...
But I challenge you to find one uttering the phrase "inspiration overload" to describe how their church - and their church leaders - communicate with their congregation - that's because (I believe) church leaders and church communicators often concentrate 99% of their communication effort on communicating the information, but fail to provide the right amount of inspiration. Because information does not move people to act...unless it is combined with inspiration.
Gotta bolt...an upcoming post will outline my thoughts on how to bring inspiration and information together. But while I go get some other stuff taken care of...perhaps you have thoughts?
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