NCD Church Survey Question 60: It is my impression that the organizational structure of our church hinders church life rather than promotes it (Effective structures).
The purpose of this series is to offer some basic “entry points” for beginning to explore your Minimum Factor graph.
This post is for those whose Minimum Factor is Effective Structures.
Two initial points need to be made.
If you have a gifted evangelist in your church, ask them how, based on your gifts, you could work with them to grow fully devoted followers of Christ.
Consider what can be done through a sermon in the context of a worship service that cannot be done equally well or better through another forum of church life.
Ask anyone you come across in your church, who seems to have some longer-term tension with another person, to tell you one or more positive things about that person, then encourage them to communicate those to the other person in some way.
Make eye contact and shake hands or greet someone from your church with whom you have had even the slightest relational tension and ask how they are going generally or with one of their specific areas of interest.
Speak out about the positives of a person or current situation (or how things could clearly be worse) when in any negative sounding discussions this week (but then of course work to make the situation better).
Share with someone why you believe they have a particular gift that is better developed in them than in yourself.