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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Chapel’s core values. Though I try to resist the urge to reduce ministry to management-speak, it can sometimes be helpful to borrow ideas and terminology from that world. Things like mission, vision, and core values can be helpful, provided they are means to discern the Holy Spirit’s leading. As my Lutheran colleague here at UM, Elizabeth Friedman, recently quipped to me, “A ministry that doesn’t have a sense of its particular mission is probably doing a lot of good things, but nothing really well.”

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