The First Step to Sparking Innovation In a Stuck Church
Churches get stuck sometimes.
If you’re a pastor, you’ve known seasons when it’s hard to get church members to do great things for Jesus.
Good things.
Okay — anything.
During our church’s years of being stuck, I longed for the day when launching a new idea was as easy as striking a match, instead of getting calloused hands and a cold heart while rubbing two wet sticks together.
Thankfully we’ve been fired up for several years now, after discovering a key to sparking innovative ideas from passionate people, while disempowering the ones holding buckets of cold water. I now consider it to be one of my main roles as a church leader.
Find a way to say Yes.
Yes to people. Yes to their crazy ideas. Yes to their passion. Yes to something God may be trying to do through them that I can’t see yet.
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