Mission-Led Institutions
It is possible, as evidenced in God’s word, for religious organizations to be institutionally profitable and missionally poor. This happens when the means by which organizations exist take precedence over the ends for which they exist. It is the essence of institutionalism. Like all institutions, religious ones are prone to allowing the well-being of the institutions (the means) to supplant the well-being of people for whom they are established (the ends). Read more