People in our culture have grown accustomed to an endless parade of choices. Needless to say, we are living in a culture of gratification and fulfillment.
"What's in it for me?" This is the question that the consumer asks routinely. The Church can get caught up in the market-driven mentality of the free enterprise system, just like a secular business. Once this happens, the law of supply-and-demand becomes the governing principle.
As a result, church leaders find themselves shopping for competitive answers and cutting-edge innovative technology that will improve their product. Pastors begin to spend inordinate amounts of time comparing, contrasting and following the latest church-growth guru in their quest for a newer and more successful formula.
We add more programs, more marketing techniques,more staff-demands, and more of ourselves in the process. In an attempt to market themselves in an ever-changing society, leaders embrace a corporate mentality.
My question is, what sort of impact does this relentless blitz of activity have on the rhythm of the pastor's heart?
My other concern is that-like anything else-our frenzied activity can become an idol in itself.. a substitute for the living God. A wearying pace is hardly the source of any minister's power.
"Power belongs to God" (Ps. 62:11
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