"If a new leader casts new vision and brings a new sense of mission, but doesn't develop new systems, then nothing changes." People will do what the systems reward them for doing, and often we reward behaviors unintentionally that we don't really want to encourage. He ended with 3 questions to address: What are the behaviors we want to characterize the people in our ministry? What are we doing systemically to reward and motivate those behaviors? What are we accidentally doing to encourage behaviors we don't want?
I also finished reading Sustainable Youth Ministry the other day. The book digs into what it takes to develop a healthy system for youth ministry that lasts.
Lots to contemplate for me...
we've been asking these very same questions as we gear up for fall, and it's meant that we've needed to make some changes to how we do things.
ReplyDeletebut it gives such a boost to the energy surrounding everything!
Fourth time I've started this comment, but it keeps ending up sounding like excuses...
ReplyDeleteThis is an area where I need to do better. Just wrote down a short list of some ministry stakeholders and potential lead team to go through these questions with me. Now to follow up and engage in some climate change.
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Happy Civic Holiday, by the way knotter (or whatever it happens to be called in your part of Canada)!