The Servant Organization for Jesus: A Framework for Church Excellence by Dean Ed & Brunson Drexel

Author:Dean, Ed & Brunson, Drexel [Dean, Ed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

W IGS

The late Dr. Stephen R. Covey advised his followers to do a few things to achieve excellence, rather than doing many things and being satisfied with mediocrity. Dr. Covey recommended focusing on a few “widely important goals” (WIGS) and setting aside items which can be described as being “merely important”.

(See http://www.franklincovey.com/tc/solutions/business-execu-tion-solutions/the-4-disciplines-of-execution-manager-certification/objectives). In order to establish WIGS as church organizational priorities, it is imperative to first know what threats to success and what opportunities for improvement exist in church organizations.

In research drawn from Dr. R. J. Krejcir of the Francis Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership from 1992-2004, revised in 2007, and used in the article, “Why Churches Fail?” (available online at www.into-thyword.org ), 3,803 people were interviewed to determine why they left a church. First, 2,039 people left because of conflict with another member resulting from gossip or strife that would not stop, was not true, or was not properly responded to. Second, 640 people felt they were not connected. Third, 613 people said they left the church because of a lack of solid Biblical teaching and faith. Fourth, 140 people left their church for reasons of inconvenience (service too long, parking too difficult, boring preaching and minor theological difference). Clearly, understanding why people leave their church is important to establishing corrective action strategies.

Dr. Covey’s original instruction on WIGS is central to The Servant Organization for Jesus’s Cornerstone of Priorities. The question which needs to be asked is this: What are the broad goals of the church organization which must be accomplished or maintained even if nothing else is achieved? When the needs of the organization are distilled into a few guiding statements of long-term goals, those statements of goals will serve as a guide for specific shorter-term strategy development as the church organization works to achieve those broader goals.

This is what Jesus did. He gave one multi-thought guiding statement for His long-term goal. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus says, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (NASB) He then left the specific strategies of how to accomplish this broad goal to His followers.

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