Top 33 Victories Part 5

#5 - We've tried to do everything with excellence

I wish I could say that we have succeeded 100% in this, but we've come pretty close.  When we start Calvary Fellowship, we said that if we couldn't do something with excellence, we wouldn't do it at all.  For us, the idea of crooked bulletins, out of tune singers, and half baked messages was a no-no from day one.  We've always said that "Good enough" is not part of our vocabulary.  So we tried to do things that looked like we were a church 5 times the size we were.  Too many times, the idea of "We're a small church, they'll understand" permeates church plants.  THat's a shame to me.  I remember being a church of 20 people and talking about how excellence honors God and that anything less is not acceptable.  The wonderful thing is that the staff at CF totally gets this and now owns this principle.  They won't let anything have our name of it without totally believing this is the very best we can do. 

Comments

[Gary]

Could not have said it better myself. GREAT stuff.

[Kevin Cawley]

Brother-- am totally loving this series. Can't remember who turned me on to this thread, but I'm enjoying it and your blog. Thanks for sharing.

[Ben]

Bob,

Gotta tell you that these posts are fantastic! It's cool to see so many of us in the church planting world have the same mistakes and successes. You've also been challenging me to have a look at some of the things we do currently. Thanks again for sharing your lessons learned!

[bill streger]

I'll echo what the other guys said - this has been great stuff, Bob. Perhaps a book (or booklet) in the making? *hint*