Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Dual Aspects Of Leadership Meetings

There is a tendency in Churches for the leadership to discuss business in its monthly meetings, at the expense of the all-important spiritual aspects. In my own two major pastorates, leadership meetings (or rather, servant meetings) were dominated by business when I started. Business was thought to be pressing, while spiritual things tended to be moved to the end of the meetings, when time was tight and they received no proper attention. In both of these pastorates therefore, we separated the business and spiritual aspects of the Church, creating an agenda which always began with the spiritual. OBSERVATION: One needs this basic structure, I think, to escape the "tyranny of the urgent".

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