Church | Keys

People that lead tend to carry a lot of keys, keys carry a lot of authority. In the church world those keys are responsibilities in ministry. Its easy for those that are serving in a large capacity and that hold a lot of keys to hold on to those keys, tight! Each of these keys represent something that the church does well and too often they hang on one ring. What does it take to get those keys off the one ring? This isn’t a revolutionary question, even though it might seem that it is. After all, if you aren’t holding all of the keys as a ministry leader, then who is? The answer is normal people! And the trick to handing them keys isn’t asking them to be responsible for something that inevitably is not their responsibility. Keys need to be handed to people with the expectation that they will become owners of those keys, not just someone that is hired to watch your keys. So church leaders, how heavy is your church keyring? If you take a moment you will probably find its a little too heavy. Look around and you will see there are lots of people just waiting to be asked to own a key.