Corporate America

I find it bemusing that the church often castigates corporate America for this and that.  Now the criticism may have merit, but the church rarely learns from this same corporate world.  To survive, grow and prosper, a business needs to have good managers and know how to connect with the people for whom they make their product.  They tend to listen to the marketplace, and do market research.  Companies that are stuck in their ways, are insular and refuse to change, go out of business.  Could not the church learn from this?  Seems not.  We tend to stuff square pastors into round parishes, who don't listen to the people and fail to connect.  The parish suffers loss of income and people.  That is, the market shrinks.  Does the church remove the pastor?  Go figure.