More of Jesus and less of stuff, and management, and vision statements, and controlling, corralling, and manipulating the people of God. Why don't people serve, share their faith, love others, lack generosity and hospitality? Because their leadership needs better policies, procedures, plans, and programs to herd these mindless sheep into activity?
No! The issue us a lack of love. When you love a girl, you chase her, and it's obvious. Same with Jesus. Want to fix the church. Tell them to find Jesus, really find Jesus, and kindness in word and deed will flow from them, without the "plan".
This is a powerful quote.
"Neither of us could get beyond Colossians chapter 1.… Let me give you some background to this text. The church in Colosse is about four years old. And they have accepted a false teaching. Scholars have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the Colossian heresy was. One of the reasons why there's so much debate about it is because Paul never defines it, and he never addresses it directly.
Now all church leaders should listen.
Paul's primary way of dealing with a church problem is to give God's people a stunning unveiling of Jesus Christ.
For Paul, Jesus Christ is the solution to all problems. And any problem that a believer or a church has can be juiced down to one common denominator: They have lost sight of Christ. Or to put it in Paul's words, they stopped "holding fast to the Head" (Col. 2:19, KJV).
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