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November 15, 2007

images for 11.18.07

Nov 15, 2007 4:25:15 PM | media

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80-20 and Organic church, pt 2 (pt 1 here) For me, I'm finding great freedom in re-organizing how I do my people work. I'm coming to realize that for us to get to where I ultimately see us (one community spread out across the city, planting churches out of a base of 3-4 sites), we're going to need to not only grow past that 120 mark, but learn how to effectively develop and nurture leadership. The freedom has come, not in giving myself permission not to pastor/shepherd people, but in giving myself the freedom to refocus from spending 20% of my "people time" on leadership and 80% on very nice and very dependent people to focusing primarily on leadership, that is, spending 80% of my people time on those 20% who either do or will do (with a bit of investment) 80% of the work of ministry and 20% on the remaining 80% of people. There's also freedom in the realization that really, 80% of the "results" I get in ministry come from 20% of my efforts. In other words, I'm doing a bunch of stuff that while yielding some results, in the bigger picture, don't yield much. There's a lot I'm doing that I need...

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