So your ministry leader thinks he's a chicken: How badly do you need the eggs?

A man walks into a psychiatrist's office and says his brother has gone crazy.

"He thinks he is a chicken," the man tells the psychiatrist.

The psychiatrist asks the man if he has told his brother that he is not a chicken.

"I would," replies the man, "but we need the eggs."

There is a chance that you colleague, ministry lay leader, program participant, and even your self is, well, crazy.

Deluded.

Personality disordered.

Misguided theologically.

Selfish.

Passive agressive.

And so now what?

Can you really have that honest conversation and get everything out there on the table and find a place of wholeness and healing?

How badly do you need the eggs.

In any given situation, that is a determination you have to make.

And only you can make it.

You can get lots of input and feed back and suggestions.

But if the hours upon hours of devoted time put in working on planning the event (even though it's completely for reasons contradictory to why you are involved) are necessary to the success of the ministry, are you going to call a chicken a chicken?

What do you think you are?