Along with cartooning for Bible Song Sunday School and working on The Fifth Church book, I brought my favorite 20 business books along on this Sabbatical. I'm trying to reread them week by week, checking out the notes I left for myself to see if they'll inform my new work.
Today I'd like to tell you about the book Blur by Meyers and Davis. It is on my 'top ten of all time' in terms of practical, applicable and helpful books in my evolution as a faith entrepreneur.
The best advice from Blur is that you don't have to know how to do everything well. You don't have time to learn how to do everything well, so pick what you can do extremely well (something you love) and do it. Then connect yourself to a team/cadre of quality folks who can fill in your weaknesses and make real partnerships with them.
In this way you can provide excellence, but you personally don't have to be excellent in every way.
For the creatives among you, Blur also gives this advice: Whatever time it takes you to create it, cut that time in half and do it again. Then cut that time in half. Then again. Then again. Soon you'll be living in a constant flurry of a creative state.
We did this with our music albums. It took a year to do the first. A half year for the second album. Now we're in a constant creative state.
Here's the Rich Notes (things worth remembering) version of the book:
Make speed your mindset
Connect Everything with Everything
Push power to the periphery
Be Big and Small Simultaneously
Blur the line between church and life
1. What seems disconnected at your church right now?
2. What would be the value of connecting:
a. Pastoral Care with Education
b. Youth Group with Youth Education
c. Youth Ministry with Worship?
d. Teens with Elders?
e. Parents With their own children
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