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Synonyms: successful, effectual, efficacious, productive, constructive, fruitful, functional, potent, powerful, convincing, compelling, strong, forceful, forcible, weighty, plausible, sound, valid, well founded, telling, operative, in force, in effect, in operation, official, signed and sealed, virtual, practical, essential, actual, implied, implicit, unacknowledged, tacit

Antonyms: ineffective, weak, invalid, theoretical, ineffectual, useless, inefficient, worthless, unproductive, futile, unsuccessful, fruitless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, abortive, vain, powerless, pointless, inept, unavailing, inefficacious, unable, incapable

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1. Adept at Inept

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F.O. Walsh

F.O. Walsh gave this basis for laziness: While other men paint, Or water or weed, I’m curled up in a chair, With a good book to read. While other men shop, Or shovel, or mow, I’m having a drink While watching some show. I offer to help, But my wife says, “Forget it, If you lend a hand, I know I’ll regret it.” And therein’s my secret, I’m very adept At only one thing, And that’s being inept.

2. Successful Judas

Matt 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-13

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Tim Kimmel

... in a crisis and socially inept. At the arrest of Jesus ... failures of Peter, impotence and ineptness.

3. Saving Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

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Donald Dotterer

... the time the pastor is inept. The bored villagers he serves ...

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1. Adept at Inept

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F.O. Walsh

2. Successful Judas

Matt 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-13

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

... in a crisis and socially inept. At the arrest of Jesus ... failures of Peter, impotence and ineptness.

3. Saving Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

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Donald Dotterer

... the time the pastor is inept. The bored villagers he serves ...

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