Another meeting is not always a step forward

Churches love to have meetings. Or committees. Or hold "think tanks."

Sometimes they are productive. Other times they seem to exist to merely make us feel important.

Whilst at the conference I attended a few weeks back I was a part of a dramatised meeting. I was the chair and had to negotiate a volatile meeting of opposing views.

In the end the decision made was to hold another meeting.

It was noted that this was not progress. Instead it was a delay.

But this is our action step all too often. Plan a date for another meeting. Then talk about the same things.

But this just pushes back the problem, and potential solution, back a further month.