These are questions that came to me as I was considering the future of my congregations. They are thoughts that everyone involved in ministry should consider.
1. Are we willing to work with other congregations?
2. Are we willing to change our worship? Our habits? Our meetings?
3. Are we willing to eliminate programs and events that are holding us back?
4. Are we willing to re-organize the administrative structure of the church?
5. Are we willing to lose ineffective traditions, rituals and practices?
6. Are we willing to go, to live and to sacrifice for the sake of the church? For the sake of Christ? For the mission of the church?
7. Are we willing to grow and stretch spiritually?
8. Are we willing to truthfully evaluate who we are? What we want? What we need?
9. Are we willing to try new programs, even if they result in embarrassing failures?
10. Are we willing to dream big dreams for the future? Set goals? Live by timelines?
11. Are we willing to just do it without complicating everything with our bureaucracy?
12. Are we willing to commit more time, energy and money to the church/ ministry/ Jesus than ever before?
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