I'm reading the book Culture Shift by Wayne Cordeiro. He has a chapter about identifying your church's culture. He uses the analogy of a totem pole -- "this is who we are, this is our culture." He also asks some painfully blunt questions:
Are our church cultures transforming the broader culture, or mimicking it?
Are we too susceptible to the latest plug-and-play church program or a pattern of quick fixes?
Do we care more about doing the next event than about the transference of values?
Will we one day find ourselves filing our mission statement away in a drawer rather than living it?
Are we stuck mimicking the best practices from others rather than finding out God's best for our church?
Are our church cultures transforming the broader culture, or mimicking it?
Are we too susceptible to the latest plug-and-play church program or a pattern of quick fixes?
Do we care more about doing the next event than about the transference of values?
Will we one day find ourselves filing our mission statement away in a drawer rather than living it?
Are we stuck mimicking the best practices from others rather than finding out God's best for our church?
1 comment:
Sounds like I need to read it.
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