
Change: When It Helps and When It Hurts Your Church
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
I like indoor plants. They supposedly clean the air with big health benefits, but I really just like the way they look. In a room of hard edges, plants soften the look of a room. I monitor their growth, prune, water and fertilize them as I need to. Occasionally as I’m tending to them, I notice various oddities: yellow leaves, a spider web, or wilting branches. All are warning signs. The same with communication issues, they have warning signs as well.
If I don’t discover what’s causing these symptoms and fix them, I risk losing the whole plant.
As you tend to your church, do you notice things that seem wrong? Perhaps you’ve even heard people talking about things they don’t like but no one connects the symptoms to the underlying causes. If you continue to ignore the issues, you risk losing the organization.
Here are 2 symptoms we often see that indicate critical communication issues:
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
When a legal expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” it followed the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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