Principles in Maintaining a Godly Organization by K.P. Yohannan

by GFA Books

Remember the "good old days" in your ministry—Your passion to reach the lost? Your zeal to serve others in love and unity? What about today? Are you in danger of becoming “just another organization”? It doesn't have to happen! K.P. Yohannan shares from Scripture and personal experience how to keep the original vision God gave you and maintain vibrancy, life and joy within your ministry.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Christy Bower · Rating 5 out of 5]

Principles of Maintaining a Godly Organization is a small booklet describing the life cycle of any organization, including churches and ministries. What starts out fresh and exciting, becomes normal, and then stale, out-of-date, and finally, dead. But the author, with several decades of ministry experience leading a world missions organization, suggests ways to extend that life cycle by making intentional changes to keep things fresh and exciting rather than looking for ways to create a routine, which quickly stagnates.

As a right-brained Christian, I’ve always struggled with the normalization problem in churches and Christian ministries. So I found his insights spot on and I hope many people, especially leaders, will take time to read this booklet for some fresh insights.

This review (with additional book quotes) first appeared on my blog, ChristyBower.com.

[Chris Huff · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick read, encouraging ministry leaders to hold onto the sense of newness and passion of vision in their organization. It's not a bad little booklet, but not particularly remarkable either. Nevertheless, it does have a few insightful ideas from time to time. My favorite thing that the author wrote was this: "How can I be a servant? When I know the One who is a servant to all. How can I be broken? When I meet with the One who was broken for the world." I usually think of being broken before God in light of His holiness and my sinfulness, so I found it quite insightful to link my brokenness with that of Christ's. As soon as I read this, it made sense, because it is, after all, the gospel.

[Erica Mbasan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This short booklet is so good! I would highly recommend to anyone in ministry. I feel like I should read it over and over again.