How's Your Innovation?

One of things I have learnt in my last 13+ years in ministry is this: you never have it down! Ministry (and especially youth ministry) is dynamic. Its constantly changing. What worked last 5 years ago won't work today... in fact what worked last year may not work this year!

The younger you are (and the more of a rookie you are) the more innovative and risk taking you tend to be.
That is the gift we give to the church body. We help to take the church into the future.

The problem is... we all get on... even if you've only been in ministry for 4 years, you're starting to get a handle on things and can easily slip into auto-pilot.

By the way... the more 'successful' we become the more risk adverse we become too.
When you're just starting out you... well, you don't have anything to loose. But that all changes as things go well for our ministries... we want to hold on to the 'success' that we have. We begin to act out of fear.
We do the very opposite of what got us to 'success' in the first place.

So how do we stay innovative? Click HERE to read a great post on 'How To Keep Innovating.'

Now let me leave you with this last thought:
We usually wait till we need innovation... till things are plateauing or in decline.
We're too late then! Momentum is lost. We're on a slippery slope to tradgedy.
Innovation needs to happen as we start sensing 'success'.

Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment.

Godspeed & Kaizan
Clive