{"id":1142,"date":"2009-12-18T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"487172876"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T14:20:48","slug":"people-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-help-you-build-your-church-your-company-or-anything-else-for-that-matter-have-you-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/people-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-help-you-build-your-church-your-company-or-anything-else-for-that-matter-have-you-noticed\/","title":{"rendered":"People Don\u2019t Want to Help You Build Your Church, Your Company, Or Anything Else, For That Matter. Have You Noticed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>\"\"The last few years have been an amazing time of transition for me, Paula, and our family.\u00a0 It is the greatest gift that God has ever given me in my adult life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been able to sit back, watch, and observe.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019ve blogged, I\u2019ve written, I\u2019ve spoken, I\u2019ve married a lot of people, and counseled even more.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been busy.\u00a0 But more than anything I\u2019ve been observing.\u00a0 And this is what I\u2019m discovering: too much of the church leadership \u2013 pastors, staff, and all the organizations that have grown up on the web \u2013 are more interested in using<\/em> people than building <\/em>people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t noticed, people are the most important thing on the planet.<\/strong> They\u2019re not a strategy, they\u2019re not your staff, they are not an asset; they are the reason you exist in your business or organization<\/em>.\u00a0 And yet, too much of today\u2019s leadership, particularly in the church (because that\u2019s where I\u2019ve been observing most) is in love with leadership as an end in itself, as well as its own voice about the subject.<\/p>\n

The endless blogs, twitters, and other cutesy ways pseudo-leaders find to advance themselves, all sound the same: clamoring to be noticed, clamoring to be supported, clamoring to be serviced, to be published, to be enlisted, and to be booked for your next event.\u00a0 And while that in and of itself is not bad, the message is what, in my mind, is not worth the effort.<\/p>\n

Get this straight.\u00a0 If I\u2019ve learned anything in 37 years of building organizations and leading people, people don\u2019t want to be used. <\/strong> They want to be blessed.<\/strong><\/em> The truth of the matter is, my goal (my job) is to build people: to bless them, to encourage them, to lift them up; helping them to build relationships, marriages, be great parents, be men and women of God; to be great citizens, to engage their world.\u00a0 My job is not to build organizations or buildings.\u00a0 The vision of The Gathering is not how can we build another building and house a few more chairs.\u00a0 The goal 24\/7\/365 every day, every week of our life is how are we honoring God<\/strong>, how are we serving His agenda in the three R\u2019s \u2013 redemption, reconciliation, and restoration, <\/em>all the core powers and objectives of building people.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t think this is just true for churches and non-profits.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t noticed, people don\u2019t work for money anymore.<\/strong> They don\u2019t like being treated like an extra chair or table that can be put out in the hallway when not in use.\u00a0 People are power.\u00a0 Loving them, blessing them, helping them become who they have the potential to be is your highest calling.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to be a leader, be a leader in love with building people<\/strong>; not a leader in love with building your own organization and reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last few years have been an amazing time of transition for me, Paula, and our family.\u00a0 It is the greatest gift that God has ever given me in my adult life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been able to sit back, watch, and observe.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019ve blogged, I\u2019ve written, I\u2019ve spoken, I\u2019ve married a lot of people, and … Continue reading “People Don\u2019t Want to Help You Build Your Church, Your Company, Or Anything Else, For That Matter. Have You Noticed?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}