Moving the Kingdom Forward
By Stovall Weems
Thanks so much for all your comments. I’d like to elaborate more on my last post and qualify a bit of what I mean by the church moving forward.
What I mean by the church moving forward is reaching more people for Christ and making more disciples. What I mean by moving forward is more people going to Heaven and less people going to Hell. We have to remember what’s at stake – it’s people’s souls. If someone on the team has become a limiter in that capacity, it’s not right before God for us to overlook that and avoid confronting the difficult decision of that person moving on to a non-staff capacity. I am not talking about not being loving, gracious, generous and merciful. We should be Christ-like in everything we do. We should not operate like corporate America when it comes to love and truth and being like Jesus. But if we avoid dealing with that decision, then we’ve put our own comfort, or that person’s feelings above a lost world and we’d have to answer to God for that. So in essence it is actually more important for the church to operate this way in comparison to a business because so much more is at stake. But remember, we are not dealing with chicken burgers or office products. We are dealing with Heaven and Hell. We need to get as many people out of Hell as possible and that will not happen without the right team.
Stovall
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I appreciate the passion, conviction, determination and “edge.” Making the decision to re-purpose a staff member, especially if the new purpose doesn’t include a role on the staff, is painful, but often necessary. Too often the church has been neglegent in its leadership by letting under-performing staff members continue.
My question is this: “Is your focus too small? Is your purpose “getting people out of hell and into heaven” too other-worldly to fully inspire and mobilize a team of servants to give their all all of the time? Clearly, the hell/heaven peice is a vital part of the Gospel, but is there more? If there is, and I believe there is, could this more wholistic, Kingdom-centric gospel actually serve to inspire leaders in ways that an “after-life only” gospel can’t?
Thank you for your posts. It has reaffirmed that even in our own professional lives and careers we should be seeking to glorify God and advance His Kingdom. If we always make that our number one focus, then how can we go wrong?