Friday, August 04, 2006

Church goals

This is very interesting reading on the goals that we set as a church and how we evaluate our progress and success. It is from the Leadership Journal blog of Christianity Today which I try to follow regularly (but not always often).

The 3 Bs -- bodies, bucks, and bricks -- have always been questionable as to whether they are really a quality measurement of a church's success. Thank you to Jim Collins for encouraging us to look beyond our standard measuring sticks and be creative and innovative in how we judge success.

The best things in life are worth working for. This blog post doesn't give you all of the answers but encourages you to think outside the box and develop answers that are specific to your church body. In my opinion, that's the way it should be. In church life, we often try to pull best practices off of the shelf of business experience and try to force them to work in our churches. At times, this results in using a big hammer to make a square peg fit into a round hole and what we are left with is splinters! It's not fast and easy to take the time to think through our church strategy, goals, reason for existence, key competencies, etc. but we are called to excellence and excellence is not always easy.

No comments: