"I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is
the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." (1 Tim. 3:15)
An article in the Harvard Business Review talked about how some people didn't understand what
business they were in. For example, the railroad people didn't realize they were in the
transportation business; they thought they were in the railroad business. Had they realized they
were in the transportation business, they would have invested in the airplane. The telegraph
people thought they were in the telegraph business instead of the communication business. In
1886 or so, they could have bought all the telephone patents for $40,000. So obviously those
people didn't know what business they were in. (From The Harvard Business Review in a article
entitled "Market Myopia")
Churches today need to ask themselves: "What kind of business are we in? Is it the entertainment, recreation, or the soul-saving business?"