Tuesday, March 08, 2005
I Hate It When Good Information Bothers Me
SmartChristian gives a link to this post from Blue Goldfish.
The post concerns 10 signs fo a dysfunctional organization. It's great stuff for leaders. But here is what bothers me. Church leaders are spending way too much time these days worrying about their organizations and not enough worrying about the souls of those within the organization.
There is nothing inherently unChristian about stuff like this, I just wonder if it is where we should be focusing our attention. All this stuff involves metrics of one sort or another. What is the right metric for a church? People in the pews or souls in the Kingdom. Precisely how do you measure that later category?
The post concerns 10 signs fo a dysfunctional organization. It's great stuff for leaders. But here is what bothers me. Church leaders are spending way too much time these days worrying about their organizations and not enough worrying about the souls of those within the organization.
There is nothing inherently unChristian about stuff like this, I just wonder if it is where we should be focusing our attention. All this stuff involves metrics of one sort or another. What is the right metric for a church? People in the pews or souls in the Kingdom. Precisely how do you measure that later category?
