One of my former clients was a large church trying to adapt to a changing culture. As they sought to come up with new experiments, interventions and innovations, they also faced tightening budgets and increasingly limited resources. The executive pastor said to me, As a church, we haven’t had to face tough choices like this, ever. For at least a generation we could solve every problem through addition. If we wanted to address a need, we just added a new program, a new staff member, a new line item in the budget. But now we don’t have the money and personnel to do that. We can’t solve our
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