Would you give up listing something on your accomplishment ledger if it meant more people experienced an event for the first time and gained a sense that the project would fail if they didn't participate?
When things are going well, do you feel a need to take it to the next level even if it means less lay participation? Without knowing it you may be setting yourself up for a discipleship meltdown.
According to a recent article by Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek Magazine, that type of thinking on behalf of the Fed may have been a contributing factor to the recent bursting of various economic and moral bubbles.
"In responding to almost every crisis in the past 15 years, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan always had the same solution: cut rates and ease up on money...Greenspan behaved like most American political leaders over the past two decades- he chose the easy way out of a hard situation."
What do you suppose that means? He didn't address the real problem--just the symptoms? He set up an artificial way for the economy to succeed that didn't reflect the essential values of the simple gut check to evaluate whether something is right or not?
So. What does a gut check for us look like? How are we performing our jobs--the day to day? What relationships have you added? Done away with? Reconnected with?
Is ministry you serve better because of your involvement, your influence, your willingness to offer your gifts and passions without restrictions?
How is the overall organization better because of something you did or maybe didn't do or didn't say?
Can we avoid taking the easy way out and a potential discipleship collapse by having difficult conversations that show people not how powerful and right we are, but rather how much we care? Can we become ever more conscious of our own egos and the way they seek chaos and emptiness--the easy way out-- instead of surrender and awareness?
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