Saturday, February 17, 2018

Fix Lists (Not)

Our new president in South Africa faces the same question as many new ministers do: what is my priority fix list? Then that fix list, at least to observers, looks impossibly long. All of my ministries, in one way or another, started that way: the fix lists not only seemed impossibly long, but seemed to encompass too many areas. But it's not about the fix lists. It's about ethos and emphasis -- and in the Church that means, of course, spiritual ethos and emphasis. OBSERVATION: Here are some examples. We had one great troublemaker. We "squared up to her", and all the other troublemakers became (almost) quiet. We had disorder in the finances. We applied discipline to one area, and all the rest fell (almost) into place.

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