Never forget your why
I have a tendency to lay out some pretty detailed strategy and then go fairly quickly into the implementation. If you don’t know me you may read some of these posts and assume that I’m trying to boil down church to a finely tuned profitable business.
That’s why I want to slow down and share a reminder today. No matter how well you do church or anything else for that matter, it doesn’t matter AT ALL unless you know the why. WHAT you do will change, often drastically. but the WHY must never change!
In fact, I’m convinced that the key reason so many ministries eventually falter and have leadership issues can be directly linked to them losing site of their WHY!
So how do you keep this from happening?
Revisit your WHY often, when you’re making decisions always do them in the context of how they support or affect your WHY. If it isn’t in alignment with and bringing you closer to your WHY, you probably shouldn’t do it!
So…what is a WHY?
It’s the reason you’re in this whole church thing to begin with, it could sound like
“Developing fully devoted followers of Christ”
“Helping people take their next step towards God”
“Love God, Love People,Prove it”
“living, loving, serving”
Your WHY is what wakes you up in the morning and keeps you up at night…
But ultimately, as a Christian Ministry, your WHY should be very closely linked to evangelism and discipleship…if it isn’t….well maybe that’s a another post for another day!
