Challange the prevailing dogma, worry your pastor, upset the stuff, make a change in this world.
All those modern churches with their church shops might not have got along with Jesus. He drove people out of the temple shouting, “My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.” (source)
If you want to really upset your pastor, you could try copying Jesus.
Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it’s the person who’s challenging the status quo, the one who is daring to be great, who is truly present and not just punching a clock who must have confidence in her beliefs.
Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for the paycheck? It’s nice to get paid. It’s essential to believe.
Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Derived from the Ancient Greek haíresis (αἵρεσις), the English heresy originally meant “choice” or “thing chosen”. What heresies have you chosen?
(Cross, F. L., and E. A. Livingstone, eds. 1974. “Heresy.” The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.)
So you noticed my yellow cross design and want to know more?
Great.
This cross is inspired by the Cathar Yellow Cross. The Cathar cross was what the Church made the followers of the Cathar heresy wear.
Step one: Try new things.
There is no step two.
Calm has no place in making change. Get ignited. Show us some passion.
Scripture means writings: It comes from Middle English, from Latin scriptura ‘writings’, from script- ‘written’, from the verb scribere. You can look it up.
Technically, then, this blog is scripture. Scripture is infallible. Therefore, I am never wrong.
That’s why the big technology companies try to collect so much data on you.
What if you did something else, like listen to what your customers are telling you they need?
Perhaps you don’t need more data for more ads; maybe you need to shut up and use your ears.
Heretics challenge the dogma of the day. That’s how we get change and make things better.