Do what I say, . . .

Another quote from McManus from Master Leaders: if you’re a leader, you cannot tolerate the discontinuity between what someone says and what that person does, if the two don’t match. I cannot tolerate it when we pretend we care about a world drowning in poverty and disease and yet do nothing about it. We say all that, and then nothing in our culture and in our values reflects those concerns. I just don’t have any tolerance for that (115).

This quote struck me it was honestly the rationale for Hillcrest's Wednesday Night Service. If we say that we’re a church that values serving, the community, and being a place that the community would miss, then we’d had to take some tangible steps into demonstrating that value, and not just being content with saying it. And that doesn’t mean that we’ll always have to have a program like Wednesday Night Service in order to model that value, or that people that don’t participate in Wednesday Night Service don’t model that value, both of those statements miss the point. It does mean that sometimes you do have to do things in order to bring alignment between what you believe and what you do, what you value and how you behave.