Pastors, you know this conversation because you’ve had it a million times. “Our church needs to have ____. Our church needs to do _____. If we had ____ more people would find Jesus.” That blank could be more classes, more groups, men’s ministry, women’s ministry, a quilting group, louder music, quieter music, more services, more kids stuff.
Here’s the problem when someone says your church should do something.
They have no idea what they want.
Carmine Gallo said, “People don’t know what they want and, if they do, they have a hard time articulating what they truly desire.”
This is why leadership is so crucial in a church.
You can’t lead based off what people say they want or what people think they want.
Often, we don’t know the very thing that would help us get out of our predicament. We can see that to be true in our lives.
Leadership then, is the ability to move people to where they need to be, not always where they want to be.
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