tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065284951023371310.post8296341024213573301..comments2023-09-28T21:45:32.037-05:00Comments on Methodist Doctrine, Spirit, Discipline: Call to Action report, Item #2-- “redesign the leadership development system”.Laura Fellemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473972360668571164noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065284951023371310.post-28229654485664689972011-04-13T14:56:05.865-05:002011-04-13T14:56:05.865-05:00Concern for both qualitative and quantitative meas...Concern for both qualitative and quantitative measures would be more in keeping with Wesley's practices. However, even if we change the name to "saint development system" we still face an educational challenge. A pastor may be a saint, but that doesn't guarantee that she knows how to help others attain sainthood. A pastor might be a servant, but that doesn't mean he knows how to help a layperson become a servant of Christ.Laura Fellemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12473972360668571164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065284951023371310.post-52222749063389650262011-04-12T19:51:07.818-05:002011-04-12T19:51:07.818-05:00My worry is that this is just another symptom of t...My worry is that this is just another symptom of the existing failure of the business culture on the Church. That is, the Church has imported the mindset of the business world and it has been failing us for 50 years. Rather than dump it as the insanity that it is, we keep turning up the volume and getting louder about it. The louder we get about it, the worse we sound.<br /><br />Our metrics are wrong. Our goals are wrong. Our virtues are wrong.<br /><br />Leadership, entrepreneurialism and success are not the Christian virtues; those are faith, hope and love. As long as the Church continues to confuse business virtues with Christian virtues, we will stay in the quagmire we are stuck in.<br /><br />Lets forget about leadership and step into servanthood and love. We need to fire all the pastor-as-CEO types and start promoting sainthood as the ultimate model for what a pastor should be.<br /><br />Along with that, we need to change our mission statement from "Making Disciples..." to "Making Saints." That will involve a serious recommitment to Wesley's vision of holiness and transformation of life; a lifelong growth process in which there are no quarterly reports or conference dashboards (sorry Bishop Willimon).cloudkucoolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06108498813078561312noreply@blogger.com