STEP 5: Readjust your self-understanding based on the feedback you received.
After getting honest feedback, go back and adjust your Archetype accordingly.
STEP 6: Accept that this is how God created you as a senior pastor and shape your ministry priorities accordingly.
It was Emerson who said, “Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one person.”
I believe that, especially in church-world.
The question isn’t whether or not the church will take on your persona. It will. The question is whether the church will take on your fake persona concocted to please some unknown group of people, or will it take on the accurately aligned and focused archetype in which God created you to operate?
Pick the lane in which you’ll make the greatest impact and experience the greatest joy.
Then stay in it.
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