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Being a part of a rapidly growing church it’s important to realize that some things will never happen, if you don’t realize this you might end up pretty frustrated. It is easy to view most things in ministry as problems to be solved, but the reality is that many things will never be “fixed” and shouldn’t be. Many issues in a thriving organization are actually tensions to be managed not problems to be solved. Here are 4 things you will never do in a growing church (at least not for a long period of time):

1. You will never have enough volunteers. This issue shouldn’t be the result of poor recruiting, but because of increasing ministry opportunities. Develop a culture of “each one recruit one”.
2. You will never have a large enough budget. Be a good manager of the resources that you have and trust God to provide the resources that you need. He is faithful.
3. You will never have enough staff. Pour into the staff that you do have and teach them to lead and equip volunteers to do the work of the ministry.
4. You will never have enough space (especially kids space). If you’re growing rapidly you need to find creative ways to create more space for ministry. Clean out the closet, meet outside, go multi-site, add another experience time.

So, if you are faced with some of the these “tensions” then view them in a positive light because you are on the right track.