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When I first had the idea to start a neighborhood Bible study, I was so excited! I sketched an invitation and marked a date on my calendar, envisioning my living room filled with neighbors sipping coffee over open Bibles. But it didn’t take long for the enormity of this dream to overwhelm me and so I did nothing.

There are a lot of reasons we fail to finish what we’ve started.

Fear always tops my list, followed by laziness. Sometimes I’m exhausted, other times I’m distracted — in fact, a recent study showed the average human attention span… {continue reading at womensministry.net}