We have entered into the Color Your World Campaign. We have a varied and dedicated leadership task team (Pastor Team) and we're into Week One. Our participation level is high, which reflects our small size (about 45 active adults.) We're throwing a lot of new terms, jargon, language at our folks with this NCD stuff! That is actually a feature of the program for us. As a congregation, we've seen it all, heard it all, paid the consultants, been led by a variety of pastors, etc. So there is an expectation, among some of our more jaded folks, that anything new will be another program that will just absorb our energy for a time and then pass in its turn.
Maybe. I know that this is familiar stuff to any readers who've been with NCD for awhile.
The point I'm making today about language is that entering into another way of talking about what's healthy about church and what needs work will, I hope, allow us to see ourselves afresh.