Carlos Whittaker

Jan28

Is Your Church Congregation The Creative Teams Lab Rat?

Posted by loswhit in Creativity,Religion

Over the weekend Iran strapped this monkey into a rocket and sent it into space.
They wanted to see if the monkey survived before they tried it out on themselves.
That monkey looks mortified.

Sometimes when I’m on a church stage, I see the exact same look on peoples faces in the crowd.
It’s because many times we take a really bad idea, and instead of doing the work to really find out if it’s gonna succeed or not, we just strap our people into a rocket and see if they survive.

The church deserves better than that.
Let’s do the work and study and stop strapping them to rockets…
Los

http://bethmorey.blogspot.com/ Beth

That is horrible and disgusting. :*(

ragamuffinsoul

horrible.

http://www.facebook.com/lorijo LoriJo Quick

ohmygosh that monkey’s face makes me want to cry….

ragamuffinsoul

So sad!

Kimmygotsoul

Yes. This happened several Sundays ago when our praise team attempted to introduce a gospel-remixed rap song into the praise and worship. AND get the congregation to “rap-along.” They were trying too hard and it was just plain awkward. Love ‘em, though!

ragamuffinsoul

Nothing better than doing a bad cover

http://twitter.com/kendoanything ken dorsey

Very insightful! I can definitely pinpoint many “follow me” moments that didn’t lead to the places that the facilitators anticipated. Every organization should invest time, and resources, into R&D!
http://twitter.com/duckster004 Billy Fourt

Whoever said “prototype, prototype, and prototype again” had it right…
http://twitter.com/mitchvdb Mitch VanDenBerghe

That’s such a great analogy. Thanks for your wisdom and insight, Los
http://twitter.com/bradchristian Brad Christian

Los – how do you balance this with giving your team the opportunity to try things and make mistakes? I’m afraid too much analysis would cause my team to not take risk.