Pairing down to beef up

The other dad  I was talking to my dad about McDonald’s reporting  the first quarterly loss ever in the company’s history.  We were talking about the number of menu items the fast food giant had and it is over 150.how can you quickly serve up edible food when there are that many items?
The next day I ran into the local McDonald’s and got some iced coffee.   There i saw that a number of items were no longer available  there were stickers over a number of items on the picture menus and other items were no longer offered.

Right now I am sitting at the annual meeting of the Methodist chuch in the Maryland area.   I hear and see lots of stuff.  Everyone congregation wants a young adult ministry everyone wants to feed the poor.   All of these are good but what is the cost.  I can’t help but think that that if the individual churches focus and pair down what they are great at, and remember we are connectional, we can together make a lasting impact in the lives of our communities.