The Simplicity Advantage Why Your Best Leadership Move Might Be Doing Less Stephen Schlabach
Somewhere in the last decade, minimalism stopped being a fringe hobby for people who enjoy folding sweaters into rectangles and became a full-blown cultural movement. There are documentaries about it. There are influencers who own eleven items of clothing and want you to know it. There ' s an entire aesthetic built around empty countertops and throw pillows that apparently serve no purpose except to be occasionally fluffed.
Meanwhile, most church leaders are living the exact opposite life. Our calendars look like a game of Tetris played by someone who ' s never played it. We have seventeen ministries, four services, a building campaign, a smallgroup system that nobody fully understands, and a Facebook group that somehow generates more conflict than theology does. If minimalism is a serene white room with one chair, ministry leadership is a garage that ' s
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