Friday, August 10, 2007

People before paper

a Jesus thought...
As Jesus entered a certain village he met ten people who were lepers. (Luke 17:11)

a Godly thought...
If the church does not think these people are worthy of our company then they will presume that they are not worthy of God's attention either. (p64 Bishop)

a leading thought...
The top CEOs spend 90 percent of their time with people. Leaders who think they are too busy to be regularly listening to and communicating with their people are doomed to fail. (p163 Blackaby)

a Dave thought...
One thing I thank God for is that I have a passion to be with people. As I minister in the Salvos I am grateful that we are about people and seeing them come to full salvation. But many times a day we are faced with paper or the electronic version of it as others require us to answer legitimate questions, give feedback, or write a reports. Over my last 7 years of full time ministry I have come to the realisation that I must put people before paper, and the cafe before the office. It can annoy some, especially if they are waiting for paper but without the people we will fail to exist.

Just a thought.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen to that. Unfortunately in past eras (and today also) people have been promoted through their ranks within TSA because they are good and handling the paper even though they may be bad at connecting with people. It has probably led to the decline in our organisation as the paper warfare dominates the lives of those engaged in mission.

Keep it up dont let them convert you.

Blessings

Anonymous said...

"I am interested in people, not paper" is an all too familiar phrase. To ensure effective delivery of services to the most vulnerable of the community we need to realise that "paper affects people and therefore outcomes". We need to find a balance!!!

Just a thought.....

Anonymous said...

If you aren't up for the paper work why did you want to be TYS. Be definition it's an administrative function. Also l appreciate the fact that you believe that 90% of CEO's spend time with people, however, this reinforces another commonly held view that 81.651% of statistics are made up to support our own arguments!

Anonymous said...

Hi Dave,
Sounds great to me!

Keep blogging...

AND SIGNED,
Rowan

Anonymous said...

That's taking an easy way out - to achieve in this world you need to have a balanced approach to life and ministry!

Paper work is necessary if you want to make a difference to your target group.

Captain Collo said...

Love the debate!

The 90% stat is actually from the Blackaby book quoting results from research done by Bennis & Nanus. Naturally we all want to fight for the view we live or are bound to. I also have another stat - 100% of people who critique blogs don't know their own name.

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