You worship your past success.
Our past successes can be one of the greatest contributing factors to our future demise. When organizations stick to “the way we do it,” the safe approach of avoiding innovation and change becomes the riskiest approach.
You focus on activities instead of outcomes.
While many church leaders are full of vision and passion, they lack an effective strategy to accomplish their mission. That leads to a feeling of disorganization, and ultimately, they become stuck.
You fail to equip God’s people.
For whatever reason, smaller churches I work with have a tendency to rely on the pastors and paid staff to carry the ministry load rather than equipping lay people.
Your ministries ignore people outside the church.
When churches become inward-focused and start making decisions about ministry to keep people rather than reach people, they also start to die.
God wants you to have a healthy ministry that helps people experience life change through a relationship with Jesus. There are hurting people in your communities that need what your church can offer. Don’t settle for anything short of that.
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