It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (4)

Best: Nailing a leadership decision
Worst: Ooops! Sorry!

Last year at the Leadership Summit, John Ortberg said, "Leadership is disappointing people at a rate they can stand." Boy was he ever right. In leadership you are always making decisions that will make one group ecstatic and make another group go take a swig of Pepto-Bismol.

It is definitely rare to get that 100% approval rating....but every once in a while you get close and people are cheering and clapping and giving you high fives. Everyone is happy. Cool stuff is happening! Everything is great.

Then...there are the other 354 days of the year. You check every angle, you talk to as many people as you can, you get buy-in from a few, and you're still stuck in the middle of a decision. One way will be great. One way won't be.

It's the best when you nail the call. It's the worst when you flub it.

Decisions will come every day. And they won't get any easier. As a church starter you've got to be ready for that. It just won't stop. At every stage of development there will be more questions, more at stake and more people counting on you to make the right call. It's a beast with an insatiable hunger.

2 tips
1. Make good decisions every time OR
2. Get good at saying, "Sorry. Let's try again."

Remember the old saying, "Failure is not falling down, it's staying down."