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# Faster horses
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20051024faster-horses-html/
- Published: 2005-10-24T03:45:28.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:10.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

> A few years ago when IDEO was working with the Mayo Clinic on innovation, we had a small office in their Department of Medicine. I happened to visit the space one day and was struck by a Henry Ford quote the team had posted on the wall. "If I had asked my customers what they wanted," said the inventive Mr. Ford, "they'd have said a faster horse." (Tom Kelley, *[The Ten Faces of Innovation](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385512074/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com)*)

We think in categories that already exist. That's why a lot of us have been searching for the church equivalent of faster horses: better programs, more polished preachers. One could argue that we are doing "church" better than ever before, with diminishing results.

The alternative is to look in a completely different category. Cars overtook horses, and DVDs overtook VHS tapes. Perhaps the Kingdom will overtake the church.

I'm finding it freeing to stop asking, "How can I do church better?" and ask more of this question "How can we participate in what God is doing in His Kingdom better?" It's not about building a better church in the conventional sense. It's about participating in what God is doing.