These past few months I’ve spent the majority of my time working on systems for Vista. We are currently creating 1 page “expectations” docs and 18-month strategies for all of our key ministries. On top of that we are working on implementing our new deacon ministry, a new finance team and preparing for our fall launch.
At times this can be mind-numbing. Usually by the time I get home I’m wiped-out. At the same time I’ve had to realize that if we want to be a “church that reaches the city of Austin” or a “church that raised $5-million dollars to fight global poverty” or a church that starts “missional communities throughout our city” we have to also be a church that does internal things well. You can’t put the cart before the horse.
I have to remind myself and others at Vista that these systems will lead to missional activity. We don’t desire to be a safe church with a good gathering and all that. We want to really see the Kingdom explode in our people and become a church that reaches our world with the Jesus-story.
Therefore systems have become my biggest priority. We have plenty of vision, I think our strategy is great, but implementing that vision and creating a sustainable systems is simply vital. So we work daily on creating these systems so we can be free to do things we love like HELP or Jeff speaking or raising-up leaders, or working on missional communities and shepherding our people, etc.
I just can’t wait till I can focus on some other things…Soon…Please be soon.
