What Is Our Business?

Business management expert, the late Peter Drucker  was once asked, “What is the key to the success of the church in the 21st century?”  He responded by saying, “The church of the 21st century needs to answer two questions.  First, what is the business of the church?  And secondly, “How’s business?”  In other words, the church needs to understand what it’s purpose is and then be committed to doing it.  To forget our purpose would be tragic.

I want you to read a large portion of a blog from James White that relates to this subject and the church.  “Eastman Kodak, a historic blue-chip American company, filed for bankruptcy because it didn’t adapt to the digital age.  The irony is that it was Kodak who developed digital photography. How can that be?  It’s simple. They didn’t know what business they were in.

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