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A Dare for Pastors

Orginally published on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 6:50 AM
by Todd Rhoades


I got an email recently from Adam McLane with a great idea for pastors. I just wonder if anyone is game to take on this dare:

Adam writes: I am daring you and your staff to take this challenge. I promise you it isn’t as dangerous as it sounds. In fact, I think it may just fundamentally change the way you interact with the people in your ministry.

Here’s the dare.

Lock every staff person out of your church building for a work week. From the senior pastor to the part time guy to the janitor. Instead of going to the office and doing your normal thing for 7 work days I am daring you to put all that “work” aside for a work week and a couple of days to spend that time getting to know 10 people who go to your church in their native environment...

Here’s how it works.

1. Instead of getting up and going to the office, split your day in half. In the morning you’ll spend a half-day with a first shift office worker and in either the afternoon or evening you’ll pull a half shift with a blue collar worker. Trust me, you’ll find a bunch of volunteers. It’ll be fun for everyone. Repeat this for 5 days so each staff member gets to see 10 of your church attendees in their work environment for half a day.

2. Run your ministries that week in the most stripped down way possible. Just wing it for a week… you’re professionals, you know you can wing a week. Tell the pastor to talk about his week or something. The preacher absolutely doesn’t get special treatment in this. Heck, download a free sermon from open.lifechurch.tv and tell the band to play last weeks songs on Sunday. This dare will make your ministry better, I promise.

Intrigued?  You can read the rest of the ‘dare’ here at Adam’s blog...

What do you think?  Anyone willing to take Adam up on his dare?!


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  There are 27 Comments:

  • Posted by nAncY
    Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 10:47 PM

    i do not doubt for one second that the Holy Spirit can prepare words for a pastor/preacher to say at a gathering.  also, all the people of a gathering are to, and can, bring something to share.

    i think that the dare is a good idea and might make room for the Holy Spirit to lead even more.

    it would be interesting to see what all of the native environments are.

  • Posted by Adam McLane
    Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 9:48 AM

    Hey Todd- to follow up on this post. Yes, several churches ARE TAKING THE DARE! I’ll let you know what they learn later this summer.

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