Focus multiplies the power of everything. Take light and focus it and you get the power of the laser. But if you give your attention to too many things, you’ll experience the law of diminishing returns (see below) and you actually accomplish less. This is true in ministry and business as well as our personal and spiritual lives.

In this brief series I have shared how significant the process of creating our staff culture document was for our staff. The document represents who we are when we are at our best. In that sense, it is a hope, it is a prayer we have lifted up to God. “Lord, by your grace, shape us to be this kind of team,” we have offered up to God.

…the process we went through a year ago to create a staff culture document and then to begin to invest time and energy toward making strides toward our staff culture document.
The process of choosing those values was messy, but the mess was important. Ultimately the process took just less than three months. I share our process not because I think we navigated the process perfectly or that we’ve arrived or that I would recommend the same exact process for another organization, but because there were important points of learning along the way for us that I hope can benefit you.

Based on the repeated structures and practices seen in thriving churches, I have created a list of questions every church should be asking themselves on a regular basis to help determine if they are intentionally working toward all that God has for them, in their own context and setting.