than the usual ones who speak and are listened to in the church.
3.Downsize and streamline, putting every function, design, and ministry into submission to our main mission: sharing God’s good news in Jesus Christ.
This is administrative, but it is first a spiritual discipline. What is each and every effort we do helping us get closer to our goal? Stained glass is one example of how churches get hung up on minors that may not be as important as mission. Stained glass ued to be so impt. Because it told the stories of the bible to people who did not read. It was evangelism for generations. Today, perhaps it has become more impt. To us to enhance the beauty of our spaces rather than tell the story. Focus goes from bible and God, to tiffany or other manufacturer, and ultimately to who paid for it. That is idolatry; and could happen in every area of the church.