There is a toilet paper holder in the men’s bathroom of the coffee shop that we work in that doesn’t work well. You see it is a fancy toilet paper holder. It doesn’t have the spring loaded stick through the middle. The spring loaded stick works great for me at home. I have never had a problem with that system. The coffee shop has a holder that has two arms that have nubbins on them to hold the roll from the side. There is nothing that goes through the tube. It just holds the roll with these nubbins that only go a little way into the tube. The problem lies in the fact that the nubbins don’t hold the roll. The arms are not tight enough to hold the roll. So when the roll gets about halfway down the holder barely holds the roll.
As a leader in the church I have a temptation to reinvent what we do. I think most of us can admit that the church as a whole isn’t hitting on all cylinders. My temptation is to change and question everything, to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes we forget that the wheel works. Its round, it rolls, and it works. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. The toilet paper holder doesn’t need to be reinvented. The spring loaded stick through the middle of the roll works. I don’t need arms with nubbins failing me when there are spring loaded sticks in the world.
There are reasons that all the other entities that do what you do, do what they do. Fast food joints have drive through windows. This works. Maybe we could make it work better but to have fast food without a drive through window would be either stupid or groundbreaking.
What is it that you question that just works? What is something that we have accepted as the way to do it that could be reinvented?
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