10 Advantages of Doing Ministry Without a Ministry Strategy

Tod's blog today pointed me to "10 Advantages of Doing Ministry Without a Ministry Strategy" from Tony Morgan

http://tonymorgan.typepad.com/tony_morgan_one_of_the_si/2005/05/10_advantages_o.html

1. You give the loudest person the opportunity to decide what happens at your church.
2. Sharp leaders who are accustomed to serving in organizations with clearly defined plans for future growth won’t stick around your church. That means more ministry for you!
3. You’ll get to hone your debating skills as people argue about what to do next.
4. More meetings! Where there's no strategy, the meetings flourish.
5. Some people call them church splits. We like to call them church plants. More mother churches!
6. You don’t have to worry about celebrating success, because no one even knows what success looks like. It’s just better to keep that a secret.
7. Rather than trying to discern God’s will for your ministry, you can just rely on dumb luck.
8. You don’t have to pray as much, because there's nothing to pray for. As an added bonus, that means you don’t have to develop as much faith either—whatever happens…happens.
9. You can count your offerings a lot faster, because people will save their financial gifts for organizations that actually have a plan for the money they receive.
10. Your lack of ministry strategy, which is a ministry strategy, will do just fine in Nothing, Arizona.

Hhm, interesting stuff - I am not sure if I completely buying to all this stuff or not (but even I do, their church size is just too big for my imitation taste). For now, I am adding him on to the other blog for some trial basis...