Ministry Noise
Are you good at what you do? I mean, really good? Do you stand out from the crowd or cause noise pollution? [tag]Seth Godin[/tag] had a post this week titled that reminded me of some things I’ve noticed with recent churches and ministries: [tag]noise pollution[/tag]. In his post, Seth discusses blogs that commonly rank in the top 10 post quite often during a day. Sometimes, way too often. As I read this, it reminded me of a church I that I visited that was proud of offering over 1500 different ways to serve in their church. That’s 1-5-0-0! Now, I first have to question how they came up with that number, but assuming that it is a legit number, the next question is: why? My guess is that it offers their church ways to reach into the community. The next issue I have: they only have 2000-2500 members. Simple math tells us that they have only 1-2 volunteers for each role, if we assume that 100% of the church is serving. Wow! I’m not certain if they have 100% of their membership [tag]volunteering[/tag], but I’m certain that those that are serving must only sleep around 4 hours a night.
1 Corinthians 9:22: I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
In this passage, the Apostle Paul was speaking of giving up some of his freedoms under Christ, such as the Jewish laws of purification and food restrictions, as not to offend those he was trying to reach when he met them where they were. What he wasn’t saying was to do all things to reach all people. Unfortunately, in our world of tens of blog posts per day, 24 hour news, 200+ channel cable and satellite feeds, on demand videos, gigabytes of music, and terrabytes of data, the very people we are burdened to minister to are shutting us out. Why? Because we become noise to them when we present our church or ministry as “all things”.
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know exactly what we discuss: methods to better manage your volunteers and your [tag]ministry[/tag]. That is the reason we don’t push out multiple posts a day, every day. Our purpose isn’t to produce noise, but to provide practical, thought-provoking insights into managing ministries and the church (and a little technology). While there are times when we have more to say, we find that 1-3 posts per week is quite enough for a ministry or church leader to consume and attempt to act upon. We also understand that our readers are in different places in their ministry or [tag]church lifecycle[/tag], so we try to vary our posts so that everyone may benefit. We hope this makes you a better leader or volunteer.
So, are you good at what you do? I mean, really good? Or, are you just noise? Are you so focused on your calling that people know exactly what you do and what you stand for? Or, are you just noise?
[tags]agile ministry[/tags]
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