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The Myth that going Backwards can take you Forward

Christian Leaders going back is not an option. Do you as a Christian leader ever get annoyed? I know I do, I am human, if you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you that at times I am hard to get on with. But no one challenges my commitment to see Christian Leaders be the very best that they can be and for them to be successful. Dealing with people can be both exhilarating and frustrating but one thing that really frustrates me is when, leaders of churches decide to go backwards instead of forward. When they feel that going back to a particular way of doing things or going back to a particular program, that didn't work very well is in their mind, the only way forward. One church and church leadership I know have done just this, gone backwards, not in size or commitment, but in the way they do things. I can't help thinking that the issue is not the church, or for that matter the leaders themselves, but in the way the world has changed, the way their community has...