Pastor Steven Furtick

My team and I are currently on our annual Staff Advance (we never retreat). One of the essential components of this yearly event is showing one another our accomplishments in strategic projects and initiatives. This is about much more than accountability. It’s about being able to participate in each other’s progress. As awareness of our successes is spread across different departments, a powerful synergy of feeling of “we got so much done” is created and ongoing progress is enabled.

Momentum is one of the most valuable assets a team can ever possess. And I’ve found that one of the best ways to create it is to share your successes. When progress becomes the expectation through participation and celebration, progress will become the norm in your organization. And not because you as a leader value and expect it. But because your team will come to value and expect it.

The same dynamic can be found in the area of spiritual transformation. If your church staff wants people to be serious about growing in their faith, highlight examples of it actually happening and let everybody participate in the advancement of God in other people’s lives. If you celebrate it, you empower it.

Or maybe you feel like your family is stuck in a state of spiritual inertia. Begin asking them where they see God moving in their lives and where they’re making progress in their faith. Even if it’s just a little bit. And then respond with encouragement in tangible and meaningful ways.

The level at which of you participate in and celebrate the progress of those around you is directly related to the level of energy you will possess to continue to make it in the future. The moment you’re too busy to honor progress is the moment you lose your ability to sustain it.