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Out of Context: Staff Culture

Leadership Journal June 12, 2009

The editors of Leadership are finishing the summer issue due out in July. Here’s a preview excerpt from John Peacock found in a report by Collin Hansen, “The X Factor: Most of the highly celebrated, experimental worship services launched in the Nineties to reach ‘Gen-X’ are now gone. What have we learned from the rise, decline, and renewal of next generation ministries?”

“Your staff culture has to represent the culture you’re trying to create in the wider church. That’s one of the biggest misses in contemporary church work. You have a business-run, top-down, bottom-line culture yet you’re trying to bring around a loving, transformative culture in your community. It just doesn’t work.”

John Peacockleads the Axis ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. Read more in the Summer 2009 issue of Leadership journal. To see the quote IN context, you’ll need to see the print version of Leadership. To subscribe, click on the cover of Leadership on this page.

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