“Leadership is like teaching third grade: it means repeating the significant things.” – Max De Pree
It’s a common stereotype that churches are perpetually “stuck” – changing anything (including carpet color) takes years, and only happens over loud complaints or church splits.
In mega church land, however, I’ve actually experienced the opposite. I think that sometimes we’re so interested in being relevant and innovative that we don’t give things a chance to take hold and work. I’m totally guilty – I get bored easily – but many times we’ll start a program, launch an initiative, etc… and think that it’s past it’s prime or usefulness, when it really might just be that something new and shiny has grabbed our attention. Sometimes – not always, but sometimes – we have to let things repeat and sink in to let them work to their full potential.
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
You can head over to my Instagram site for an abundance of shorter posts: creativeworshipideas. If you're looking for consulting - especially on weekend services, team leadership or multi-site strategies - I'd love to help. Just message me here, and I'll be in touch - Greg
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