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💡 1 SOLUTION FOR EFFECTIVE MINISTRY
In ministry, indecision is often more damaging than making the wrong decision.
Making a wrong call, like trying a new outreach strategy that doesn’t land, or launching a ministry event that flops, still teaches you something. You gain clarity, grow in wisdom, and build leadership resilience. Even “failure” can deepen trust in God as you learn what doesn’t work.
But indecision? It teaches you nothing.
It delays progress.
It keeps your team unclear and your church stagnant.
Should you launch that second service? Hire a new staff member? Change your group structure? Waiting indefinitely rarely brings new clarity, it just paralyzes movement.
Yes, certainly there are times when making the wrong decision is worse than indecision, but in my experience, the bigger problem for churches is indecision.
Or, making the right decision too late. In which case, the issue wasn’t really the decision. Again it was indecision.
In fact, the worst decision for your church might not be a wrong one, it might be never making one at all.
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🤔 1 CHALLENGE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY
What’s one ministry decision you’ve been putting off? This week, take one step toward making the call, set a deadline, get counsel, or create a simple pros and cons list. Movement creates clarity.
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