John Maxwell says that the
power of momentum makes an average leader look good and that the lack of
momentum makes a good leader look average.
Such is the power of momentum - leaders will know what I’m talking
about. If you can get some momentum it makes
things much easier for you in fuelling change management within the church. An
example…
A couple of years ago we
needed to further extend our Catford site – we were looking at raising £100,000. We had gone to two meetings on Sunday morning
and were talking about bringing in a third meeting. Despite the fact that we
had already gone to two meetings, we had space issues for our children’s work. We needed the extension to accommodate the
kids - everyone recognised that and said, ‘Fine!’ We had to raise another offering and momentum
made it easy to lead in that situation.
So, as a leader I crave and pray for momentum moments.
When we started out at
King’s we could provide a momentum moment maybe once a term - there was so much
to do in the church here. At first there were no elders, when it rained the
water came in, I was new and didn’t know much, had young children and was
exhausted and we could just about muster a momentum moment about once a
term. As you gain momentum and resources
increase you can get such a moment perhaps twice a term. Now it feels like
sometimes every Sunday is such a moment.
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