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Missional Planning

6/6/2013

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Churches have benefited from the methods of organizational management and business practices. Logical, disciplined, systematized approach to goal accomplishment is the virtue of organizational management. Churches can learn from businesses. Yet, churches operate under different assumptions than business organizations and begin from a different place. 

Churches are always accountable to God, whereas business organizations choose to acknowledge or ignore their accountability. Churches properly begin with what God is doing in the world and align their ministries to that which God calls them. This is different from organizational strategic planning that does not take into account God's role in the organization's future but decides for itself what it shall do. 

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