If you don’t feel it in your bones, you’ll never do it well.
I’m a born administrator. It’s a talent from God and fundamental to the way I think. In my mind, I regard it as moral engineering. That is, God has granted me an understanding of His revelation, His moral character, and how that all applies to human behavior. My calling is to engineer the context for optimal morality — defined as adherence to God’s Laws. Such adherence reaps the rewards of God’s direct and indirect support of the activities.
Looking back over my life, every time I faced a test of not having a clue how to do something, my response predictably arose from an organic administrative approach. I didn’t really learn organizational theory; I absorbed it intuitively. When I first saw the term “organizational theory” in writing, I knew it was already burned into my consciousness. Further, my mind rushed to embrace ANE feudalism as the most natural thing I’d ever seen. People have always acted according to the broad assumptions in Scripture, so when I understand it in the Ancient Near Eastern intellectual context, it made perfect sense to me.
Human behavior these days surprises and puzzles me far less than it once did.
Lately I’ve spent a lot of time ruminating about these things. It has become an element in much of what I do. I sense another book coming, but it won’t be a very long one. In my prayers and meditations on this, it seems to point toward explaining some fundamentals of church administration from my unusual approach. Having read a few fat tomes about church administration, I’m still wondering how they could spend so many pages missing the point.
And it’s not that I’m such wonderfully smart and wise man, but I can’t resist the urge to poke a few more holes in the inflated façade of Western Christianity.
