Bureaucracy...What it's Worth

[Nahum]

The older I get, and the more I see, I am completely turned off by organizational bureaucracy. It is a stench in God's nostrils and destroys many lives.

It is equatable to the money-changers in the Temple.

Perversion in its worst form.

Countless front-line men and women give their lives to God's kingdom daily. Their time, their careers, their money, their family, only to have a hierarchy tell them they need to give more, and more, and more to support programs that are unwieldy and useless. Programs that line the pockets of "executives" somewhere far removed from the realities of street level ministry.

My prediction is that any new org will mirror everything that currently exists.

Why?

Because men love power.

Bureaucracy hinders the work of God.

It is worthless.

I see it in many orgs across denominational lines, and I am sickened by it.