Directing a ministry is similar to running a company in some ways. Liken dealing with customers and vendors to working with volunteers and other ministry leaders. Do you know what I have found? Everybody makes mistakes, including me.
Just recently I’ve made changes to the phone system. The company I changed to made a couple mistakes in how it was set up and missed the promised date. I could have let them have it verbally but I didn’t. They were very apologetic and proactive in rectifying the errors.
By nature I am a person of principle but I have learned through the years that it isn’t so much that people make mistakes but how they deal with those mistakes that makes the difference.
In the church, your pastor will make mistakes. Ministry leaders will make mistakes. You will make mistakes if you are involved in the ministry in strategic ways.
- How will you react to mistakes you see others make?
- How will you handle mistakes you make?
Many church conflicts and splits could have been avoided if a little grace had been applied. And, it would have been easier for people to exercise that grace had those at fault handled their mistakes with humility, grace, wisdom, and understanding.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. (Ps. 103:11-14)

