Mak's link to Rick Meigs original post showed up first in my Google Reader. It was worth reading twice. Perhaps even thrice:
It really bugs me that we have decided in our churches to come up with the management model and that is the model we’re using to govern most of our churches. So we got to have a strategic plans. We’ve got to have a missions statement. We’ve got to have little forms to fill out to put down what we are doing. Give me a break! The church is not IBM!… Who in the Hell came up with that idea?! —Mike Yaconelli, cofounder of Youth Specialties
I'm thinking, perhaps it was this guy:
Naked Pastor - GIMME! Ministries #2: People Group
