Friday, November 07, 2003

Scaffolding

I love Oswald Chamber's perspective. "Organization must be seen to be scaffolding raised by the organism, and must never be allowed to take the place of the organism."
I think we look for permanent solutions when it comes to organization and administration and structure, but the church is dynamic not static. Doing church is a moving target. I'm more and more convinced that budgeting and strategizing and systematizing are not even annual things--our plans must be "living documents" that are always amendable. So much of leadership is about calling audibles at the line of scrimmage. That doesn't mean we shouldn't call good plays in the huddle, but we've got to be flexible to make mid-course corrections.
I told one of our ministry leaders this week, "If you do everything next year that you did last year you're doing something wrong." We've got to prune. We've got to take scaffolding down and put it back up all the time.

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