Comments on: 5-Final signs your church might SUCK! http://artiedavis.com/2010/07/08/5-final-signs-your-church-might-suck/ Leading BIG in the small Thu, 17 May 2012 13:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ArtieDavis http://artiedavis.com/2010/07/08/5-final-signs-your-church-might-suck/#comment-576 ArtieDavis Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:20:22 +0000 http://www.artiedavis.com/?p=2110#comment-576 Now Way Buddy Bro! you keep firing the truth. We can handle the TRUTH! Now Way Buddy Bro! you keep firing the truth. We can handle the TRUTH!

]]> By: Buddy Knight http://artiedavis.com/2010/07/08/5-final-signs-your-church-might-suck/#comment-575 Buddy Knight Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:36:50 +0000 http://www.artiedavis.com/?p=2110#comment-575 1a. The inability to delegate rises out of more than one thing: - Fear, since you are not 100% in controls (NEWS FLASH: You never are!) - Arrogance, since you think that YOUR WAY/IDEA is the only RIGHT WAY/IDEA. - Inability to train your staff. If you have a staff member you can't delegate to, either train/educate him or replace him. "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." General George S. Patton. 2.a The old joke about insanity being the expectation of different results from doing the same thing over and over again applies, but I think a bigger root is PRIDE. You keep head-butting the wall because you just can believe that you might be wrong, incomplete, untrained, etc. Get over it and move out! 3. a "He who does not risk, cannot win" Admiral John Paul Jones, Father of the U.S. Navy (Had to memorize that at the Academy...) "Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.” Von Clausewitz 4a. Again, Satan uses pride and fear to prevent us from consulting with others and learning from their experiences, pro and con. We fear that someone is after our pulpit. We fear someone will remember our failure or problems and not hire us at some future date. HOGWASH. God called us. God is the one we must please. He didn't put us here to stand alone, but to stand together. Eccl 4:9-10 and Prov 15:22 are germane. 5a. Delegation (#1) can allow you to focus on 2-3 things, but only if there is training of the "delegatees" and if the 2-3 additional things are coordinated and synergistic with the first thing. These are often "step goals/tasks" that support the overall mission objective. Think combined arms warfare. Infantry, Armor, Artillery, and air support (naval and air scouts <grin>) each focus on different objectives that support the over all battle plan. Each is FOCUSSED. The role of the leader (aka PASTOR) is to keep their focus on those things that support the operational objective that is being sought. Good series, Artie. I know you'll be glad when I'm back in battery and don't have so much time on my hands! <grin> Buddy 1a. The inability to delegate rises out of more than one thing:

– Fear, since you are not 100% in controls (NEWS FLASH: You never are!)
– Arrogance, since you think that YOUR WAY/IDEA is the only RIGHT WAY/IDEA.
– Inability to train your staff. If you have a staff member you can't delegate to, either train/educate him or replace him.

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." General George S. Patton.

2.a The old joke about insanity being the expectation of different results from doing the same thing over and over again applies, but I think a bigger root is PRIDE. You keep head-butting the wall because you just can believe that you might be wrong, incomplete, untrained, etc. Get over it and move out!

3. a "He who does not risk, cannot win" Admiral John Paul Jones, Father of the U.S. Navy (Had to memorize that at the Academy…)

"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.” Von Clausewitz

4a. Again, Satan uses pride and fear to prevent us from consulting with others and learning from their experiences, pro and con. We fear that someone is after our pulpit. We fear someone will remember our failure or problems and not hire us at some future date. HOGWASH. God called us. God is the one we must please. He didn't put us here to stand alone, but to stand together. Eccl 4:9-10 and Prov 15:22 are germane.

5a. Delegation (#1) can allow you to focus on 2-3 things, but only if there is training of the "delegatees" and if the 2-3 additional things are coordinated and synergistic with the first thing. These are often "step goals/tasks" that support the overall mission objective. Think combined arms warfare. Infantry, Armor, Artillery, and air support (naval and air scouts <grin>) each focus on different objectives that support the over all battle plan. Each is FOCUSSED. The role of the leader (aka PASTOR) is to keep their focus on those things that support the operational objective that is being sought.

Good series, Artie. I know you'll be glad when I'm back in battery and don't have so much time on my hands! <grin>

Buddy

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