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The curse of success is that it must be maintained. Once we have been successful, and built something worthwhile, enormous effort must be expended to maintain what we have built. However, once we start maintaining what we have built, forward momentum is lost, which means we have lost our success. The trick is to stay on offense – to continue moving forward, without being bogged down maintaining what you have built.

The church, in the book of Acts, is extremely successful. One of the results of their success is a group of widows who are being cared for by the church. They were going to the chur...