During the Management
Training Course at Western, the question we learned to ask was: "What
business are we in?" Many businesses and organizations fail because
management is confused about what business they are really in. I tell the story
of the Addison Adding Machine company (never heard of it?) which discovered it
was not in the business of making and selling mechanical adding machines.
Computers were a new thing. They were in the business of making international
business machines - IBM. The dramatic moment when Jesus claims the mission of
the Messiah prophesied by Isaiah reminds us of what business we are in. We are
not in the business of saving people or planting and developing healthy churches.
We are in the business of healing the relationship between God and His people.
The prophecy tells us exactly and in depth how we are to do this.
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We are anointed by the Holy Spirit for this mission
