Integrating Missionally

Count it up!

The easier something is to quantify, the less it is worth.

Think about these words. They were written by Seth Godin in his new book call Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?.

Now apply these words to how we do church. What do you quantify? Money. People. Baptisms. Sunday School Attendance. New Members.

Quantification in this regard, does 3 things:

1. It devalues the person. Actually, I think it dehumanizes them
2. It elevates the quantifier. In this case, the number of…
3. It celebrates the one who produces the result.

What do you count? How does that affect how you view the church?

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“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship,” says bestselling author Seth Godin, arguing that we must quiet our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them.

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Seth Godin at the Gel Conference in 2006

What a great video by Seth Godin on things that are broken and how they impact our lives.

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