Planning and Goals: Is There Room for the Holy Spirit? An Introduction | www.markdroberts.com
March 6th 2008 09:33 am
Mark D. Roberts begins a series on planning and goal-setting in Christian ministries:
Can we make plans and formulate goals and still leave room for the Holy Spirit?
Should churches and other Christian organizations have formalized processes for clarifying vision and setting goals?
Can the Spirit of God speak to us in the midst of a goal-setting process? If so, how?
What can we do to let God guide our strategic planning processes?
[From Planning and Goals: Is There Room for the Holy Spirit? An Introduction | www.markdroberts.com]
Jim Williams responded on 16 Mar 2008 at 5:43 am #
Only if you put Him on the agenda!
Seriously, the “business model” of the church runs the risk of having us lead our churches like we lead our corporations. An MBA is better than an M.Div.
We can be Spirit-led yet do things “decently and in order”. God is a planner, and we are made in that image.
It is said that the truly major differences between man and animals are that (1) man can plan for the future - we do not merely act out of instinct - and (2) man has opposable thumbs. Without (1) and (2), flipcharts could not be used and our entire economic system would collapse.
Pray and Plan. The two are not mutually exclusive.