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Tony Morgan on "Getting Stuck"

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Image via Wikipedia I probably shouldn’t admit this, but sometimes it makes me feel better to know that other organizations are feeling the pain as well. For example Borders was in the news last month. They announced they are  shutting 200 bookstores .  They’re faced with liquidating $350 million of inventory. Though people are still  reading books, Borders is stuck. A couple of years ago, you and I became owners of General Motors . The U.S. government had to use a $50 billion (that’s with a “b”) bailout to keep the company afloat. GM went from a 45% market share in 1980 to  under 20%  thirty years later. People are still buying cars, but GM is stuck. The United Methodist Church has  lost about three million members  since 1970.  The number of people attending at least one Church of England service each month is down by 50% since 1968. Today  less than three percent of the population attends services . Denominations are stuck. I get to work with and communicate with