As churches and ministries grow older in age, and especially when they grow out in size, changes need to be made to the way they do things.
Some of these things are practical necessities, they just get forced upon you and you have to do it.
But some of them are strategic necessities: you can get away without doing them, but if you do, it's possible that this will reduce the depth, and quality and impact of your ministry. And it's also possible that it might therefore stifle your ability to welcome, engage, edify and train more people.
So I thought I'd do a little series on a few.
Not Teams But Rosters
There's a good place for rosters. They are efficient and simple and obvious. They engage everyone in doing a little bit so that a lot gets done.
But rosters can be lazy: They stop us from building teams, recruiting people to the vision of that team.
And so rosters can be limiting: They mean we never build groups of specialists who really own their area of ministry and develop it.
Rosters can also simply be wasteful: is it the best use of all these people's time and energy to do all these jobs? Are there a smaller group of people who do it better, quicker and more joyfully? Or are there people who could be paid to do it for us, freeing everyone up to do different things?
So part of growing your church up might be developing an aversion to the 'simple' roster-solution. 'Let's just all muck in and do the job', shifts to 'Who's the best person to get this done?'
It might even be helpful to start thinking of rostering as a 'last resort', to force the discipline and creativity to think of other solutions.
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