How Your Church Family Works Quotes

“Where there is little self-definition, there is a vague vision. Where there is an unclear vision, the people perish in their own anxious reactivity. They have no head and are headed nowhere. Where there is self-definition, there is a clear vision. Where there is a clear vision, there is a response to the future.”
― Peter L. Steinke, How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems

“The church is holy, set aside for God’s purposes, and yet it is ordinary, subject to human ends. It is not that our metaphors and ideals are false but that we fail to realize that the church functions as an emotional system.”
― Peter L. Steinke, How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems

“Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.”
― Peter L. Steinke, How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems