Busy doesn’t equal engaged
Are your people busy serving…but perhaps not actually engaged?
Is your organization thriving and are ministries sustainable…or do you feel like you are constantly scrambling to keep “filling slots”?
You can:
✔ make announcements
✔ fill roles
✔ rotate people serving
✔ keep everything running
…and still feel the churn of unsustainability…as well as wonder if your people are growing or just checking a box.
Real engagement isn’t about activity.
It’s about aligning people’s involvement with how they are uniquely gifted, passionate, and wired to serve.
It’s about their growth and discipleship.
It’s about helping them see, know, and experience why their involvement matters.
It’s about moving them from a sense of obligation to a deeper sense of purpose and calling.
When those things are happening,
You start to see:
people initiating instead of waiting to be asked
deeper consistency
more energy, not less
sustainability
excitement
growth
That’s not a program.
That’s a culture shift.
And it doesn’t come from doing more—
it comes from helping people see differently.
If you’re thinking about Fall content,
this is the kind of shift that lasts beyond a single study.
Here’s how I guide that process:
godgiftsyou.com
The resource faith communities and small groups are using:
God. Gifts. You. on Amazon: https://lnkd.in/gKqiMeZA
Important resources:
Take this free spiritual gifts assessment or this free Spanish language spiritual gifts assessment.
Purchase the six-week workbook in English or Spanish:
Downloadable Resources--See Sample List of Interest Areas; Your Spiritual Gifts—A Study Guide; Knowing Your Unique Calling and Purpose Study Guide; Whole-Life Ministry: A Form of Worship, Grace-Giving, and Living into Your Calling.
Shirley Giles Davis, author of God's Affirmations For You: A Book of Encouragement—A 12-Week Devotional Practice, the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, DIOS. DONES. TÚ.: Tu llamado y diseño único (Spanish Edition), and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with hundreds of faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for four decades. She currently serves as Catalyst for Equipping at her church.