Healthy cultures attract and keep healthy people. – Andy Stanley
The number one force that shapes your culture is your values. – Craig Groeschel

With the words of Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel in mind, I will foster a healthy staff culture at theMOVEMENT by prioritizing four Staff Values:

1. Connect to Christ – Your Intimacy with Christ > Your Ministry to Others
2. Check Your Character – Condition of Your Heart > Work of Your Hands
3. Cheat the Church – Respect from Your Family > Love from the Church
4. Cut the Crap – Your Results > Your Excuses

Why “Check Your Character?”

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. ²⁰ These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.” - Matthew 15:18-20

How “Check Your Character?”

We will continually check our character by protecting ourselves against the following four “enemies of the heart”:

1. Guilt characterized by the feeling, “I owe you.”
   • Overcome by developing the habit of CONFESSION.
2. Anger characterized by the feeling, “You owe me.”
   • Overcome by developing the habit of FORGIVENESS.
3. Greed characterized by the feeling, “I owe me.”
   • Overcome by developing the habit of GENEROSITY.
4. Jealousy characterized by the feeling, “God owes me.”
   • Overcome by developing the habit of CELEBRATION.

Recommended Reading: Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley

Question to Consider: Which enemy of the heart do you need to guard yourself against?

Healthy cultures attract and keep healthy people. – Andy Stanley
The number one force that shapes your culture is your values. – Craig Groeschel

With the words of Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel in mind, I will foster a healthy staff culture at theMOVEMENT by prioritizing four Staff Values:

1. Connect to Christ – Your Intimacy with Christ > Your Ministry to Others
2. Check Your Character – Condition of Your Heart > Work of Your Hands
3. Cheat the Church – Respect from Your Family > Love from the Church
4. Cut the Crap – Your Results > Your Excuses

Why “Connect to Christ?”

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)

How “Connect to Christ?”

We will stay connected to Christ by living lifestyles of consistent:

1. Repentance – Where we experience the grace of Christ.
2. Worship – Where we exalt the name of Christ.
3. Study – Where we explore the words of Christ.
4. Prayer -  Where we engage with the person of Christ.

Recommended Reading: The Secrets of the Vine by Bruce Wilkinson

Question to Consider: How is your connection to Christ?