Staying Flexible

It is terribly important to stay flexible if you ever want to get anything done in any organization, especially a church. Sometimes the battle over protocol or policy is just not worth the heartburn. You have to ask, Is this a mountain I am willing to die on? If not, there's nothing wrong with some compromise. Give and take is the name of effective efficiency. If you're too inflexible you become a stick-in-the-mud that stops all progress. How much more important to bend a little here or there for the sake of working together for a common goal. No, of course I'm not talking about great moral issues here. Methods rarely equate to morality. In other words, who cares how a job gets done just so long as it actually gets done! Team members and networking teams have to bend and flex in order to keep from breaking.

Well, maybe I need to modify that next-to-last sentence above just a bit. It really doesn't matter how a job gets done, just so long as it actually gets done -- and the way it gets done isn't illegal, immoral, or doesn't hurt someone. The real question is: Do we equate methods with morality. Think about it.