Episode 40: How Can Churches Recognize and Address Weaknesses? Tim Challies' Leadership Advice. +Review of the Worst Soda In the History of the World.

Every Church Flourishing Episode 40 with Tammi Smorynski and Samuel Kommu Title: How Can Churches Recognize Their Weaknesses and Do Something About Them? Tim Challies ' leadership advice. How does the church go forward from a human perspective? The worst soda ever conceived. Absolutely disgusting. Made from a fruit banned from multiple airlines, and a fruit that shut down an entire government building just because of the smell. "Durian fruit, when it is incredibly ripe, has a cross smell between methamphetamines, dirty socks, and rotting bodies." Tim Challies for anyone in a leadership position: "The apple does not fall far from the tree" applies not only to fathers and their children, but also to founders and their organizations. This is the first lesson: just as a founder's strengths will be embedded in the organization he creates, so will his weaknesses. Just as his strengths may be integral in causing that organization to rise, his weaknesses may be integral in causing it to fall. Thus, a wise leader tries to gain an awareness of his weaknesses and in some way to oppose or mitigate them, perhaps through policy, through limiting his position, or by hiring people whose strengths counter his weaknesses." Why do churches sometimes hate the process of identifying weaknesses, and how that process can actually be helpful and encouraging. In the Bible, Jesus Assessed Seven Churches, so we should not run from that process. What does it feel like for members of a church to go through a significant decline? When we focus away from the consumer mentality of church, we will recognize that it is not just the pastor's job to build people up, but the privilege of every church member. Greatest secular equivalent to who a pastor is might just be a football coach. From a human perspective, the church goes forward by the Holy Spirit-empowered ministry of extraordinary church members who are equipped for ministry by the pastors and leaders of the church. What do pastors and denominational leaders not understand about church health from the inside? Samuel Kommu from Calvary Baptist Church in Santa Clara Tammi Smorynski from Oak Grove Baptist Church in San Jose