After receiving a degree in Christian Ministry (aka church work/pastoral care), working as a volunteer in a church leadership position, and vocationally spending my last 6 years working in the Insurance industry I have noticed a familiar trend happening amongst up and coming organizations. I call it CCS (Copy Cat Syndrome). What happens is that up and coming organizations (especially churches) look to successful and thriving organizations to take a closer look at the systems they have in place and try to copy and duplicate them. They think that by doing this it will be a magic pill for making them successful as well. I will agree that for the most part, those successful organizations do have great systems in place and are worthy of a closer look. However, I believe that we would be better served and more successful by copying the real reason they are successful instead. 9 times out of 10 those organizations systems are successful because of an often-overlooked principle and mindset. Passion and drive for accomplishing the mission. Successful organizations are sold out to accomplishing the mission at whatever price it comes with. Successful systems are merely the fruit of an organization being passionately devoted to the mission at hand. So, why then don’t we spend our efforts duplicating and copying systems? This week focus on your mission, and then move onto to developing the passion for the mission. I believe as you focus on the right things you will see start to see the successful organization you long for. Passion for the mission will drive you towards healthy successful systems. I want to note this applies to life as well not just organizations.
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Now as for the church, our mission is unique. Our mission is to tell people about the extravagant love God has for them. That he loves us so much he sent his son Jesus Christ to this earth to save us. From what you might ask? An eternity separated from God. He made a way for us to be united with him by dying on the cross for our sins. Because of this we can be assured that we will spend eternity with him and live an abundant and full life here on earth. All of this happens when we choose to simply accept this free gift that he gives us. Now that is a message to be passionate about! I don’t know anyone on the planet who truly is without need for this message. It is a message of Hope, Love, Comfort Joy, Peace, Restoration, and abundance of life! It is a message that brings power into your everyday life!
