doxopolis:

As I’ve traveled the country visiting many churches I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon: sometimes IT ministries, in an effort to serve their church well, become a bottleneck to the mission of the church. Though largely unintentional, the effect is the crippling of the communications and community ministries. Here are some reflections I hope can help church IT ministries become a mission enabler.

“Not Invented Here” Culture

Why were they the bottleneck? Because for varying reasons, they decided to build everything themselves. This has been labeled as the “not invented here” culture and is a very bad thing in resource-constrained organizations.

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