Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #11- Lose Your Passion

Ok, so the Lord can say it in ten and I cannot—like Donald Keough I just had to add one more. In his book The Ten Commandments for Business Failure he said, “If you really want to fail, lose that passion for whatever it is you’re doing” (p. 174). As a leadership and a church-health [...]

Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #10-Thou shalt fear the future

The movie The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie of the victory of good over evil even if late. My favorite quote from the movie is “Get busy living or get busy dying.” I often want to say that to some senior adults in the church today. Please don’t get me wrong because I love [...]

Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #9-Thou Shalt Not Communicate Clear Expectations

In his book The 8th Habit, Stephen Covey used a sports metaphor to relate how ineffective organizations are at communicating expectations to their people. He used soccer for his illustration, but I will use football. Based on a study of 23,000 workers in prominent companies, the Harris Poll organization determined that most organizations are ineffective [...]

Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #8 Thou shalt love thy bureaucracy.

“This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could [...]