{"id":1677,"date":"2010-01-02T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2010-01-02T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T14:28:52","slug":"the-chicken-and-egg-question-for-church-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-chicken-and-egg-question-for-church-leaders","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Chicken and Egg&#8221; Question for Church Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Driscoll makes an interesting point in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theresurgence.com\/seasons_of_church_life\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this article at Resurgence:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>\u201c\u2026administrative structures grow to prepare for numerical growth\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most churches <em>wait for the growth before adding ministry programs<\/em> and never see it because <em>the structure isn\u2019t in place for growth to happen<\/em>. This structure must include the right programs with the right people leading those programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are <strong><em>we<\/em><\/strong> waiting for? In what areas do our \u201cadministrative structures\u201d need to grow in order to see numerical growth? What are these &#8220;adminstrative structures&#8221;? Should there be a programming priority (children&#8217;s ministry before youth ministry before worship ministry before&#8230;)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Driscoll makes an interesting point in this article at Resurgence: \u00a0\u201c\u2026administrative structures grow to prepare for numerical growth\u2026\u201d Most churches wait for the growth before adding ministry programs and never see it because the structure isn\u2019t in place for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/the-chicken-and-egg-question-for-church-leaders\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}