Insight 112: FaithSoaring Churches Climb Out of Ruts

Congregations desiring to transform are continually evaluating the effectiveness of everything they do. They create an atmosphere that continual evaluation is a good and expected thing, and not a criticism of what anyone is doing. These congregations realize that when they get in a rut–meaning doing the same old thing because that is the way we have always done it–they risk irrelevance.

Falling into a rut is different from affirming effective patterns that should be repeated. A rut represents mediocrity; perhaps even dysfunction. Every year congregations need to choose to climb out of their deepest ruts.

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Kyndra Bremer