The Quickest Way to Church Transformation
Marketing Guru Seth Godin’s blog post this morning is short but speaks volumes to a topic near and dear to the hearts of Church leaders — transformation. What’s the quickest way to achieve transformational goals?
- Don’t demand authority.
- Eagerly take responsibility.
- Relentlessly give credit.
The blog post has only one more sentence, a caveat warning that it is not the easiest way but the quickest.
Contrast this to the way Church leadership often approaches “transformation.”
- They demand authority (constitutionally or not).
- They relentlessly find fault within congregations and assign blame to volunteer laborers.
- They grab credit for any success.
No wonder Church “transformation” so often ends with results that are counterproductive to the mandates of Christianity.
Seth says so much in just a few words. So we won’t add any more.
17 May 2012