How we do it:
- Pastor is going to announce "such and such" to the whole church in three months so we need to go research (no time), buy (no money) implement (no long term plan) something because a gazillion people are going to go online and do this the day we launch it (also the day it will be announced).
How we should do it:
- We've had some pretty good results with this new technology we put out there quietly last month. It was pretty obvious we needed it last year when we decided we weren't ready to automate that thing pastor wanted us to do. Good thing pastor asked the elders for a budget and gave us enough permission to get a simplified version of our ultimate goal online. Turns out we didn't need for it to [insert flashy feature here]. Pastor is ready to promote it to the church as part of next month's teaching series and we're sure it will work.
There are churches that do it right most of the time. There are churches that talk about doing it right next time.
It's been my experience that pastors are reasonable people (as a rule). I find it is often the people in the middle, those between the doers and the deciders, who over-promise.
