Trying to lead a local church to have less organised activities seems to be a constant struggle.
Jared Wilson has an extended post which includes ten observations about the tendency to have lots going on.
Here’s a few of them:
2. Over-programming creates an illusion of fruitfulness that may just be busyness.
4. Over-programming runs the risk of turning a church into a host of extracurricular activities, mirroring the “type A family” mode of suburban achievers.
6. Over-programming leads to segmentation among ages, life stages, and affinities, which can create divisions in a church body.
10. Over-programming is usually the result of unself-reflective reflex reactions to perceived needs, and an inability to kill sacred cows that are actually already dead.
You can read the rest of Wilson’s post here.
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