Are Competing Commitments Limiting Outcomes Among Church
Leaders
John Ortberg calls it a "shadow mission" - a hidden agenda that has the power to divert the best
plans of a dynamic church management team.
Have you seen this particular A fresh idea about...
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Are Competing Commitments Limiting Outcomes Among Church
Leaders
John Ortberg calls it a "shadow mission" - a hidden agenda that has the power to divert the best
plans of a dynamic church management team.
Have you seen this particular A fresh idea about
interesting the community gets an at first rousing welcome in your church leadership team.
After a
few months, proponents begin to encounter stiffer resistance - even from among the first supporters!
most of the resistance is passive.
(we are much too nice in the church to argue.
) Eventually, the
trailblazers let the initiative pass away.
Why? Their shadow mission was to be a comfortable chapel
that resists rather than encourages change.
Brian Klemmer refers to it as a "competing commitment.
" maybe you have known of a leader that
possesses enormous capacity, a strong work ethic, excellent theological and pastoral training, an
excellent network of mentors as well as colleagues, and a context fresh for victory? Why, on a day
follow
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