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By Rev. Julie Delezenne
Author Simon Sinek has made popular the idea for organizations to “start with ‘why’” as they are inspiring others and leading their teams. Sinek advocates for knowing and communicating the “why” of what you do and how you do it.
In the Church (as in other areas of our lives), we often start with the “what”: what activities will we do, what are our policies and procedures, what resources do we need?
But in Paul’s letters, he doesn’t start with the “why” OR the “what,” he starts with the “who”: Jesus Christ. Why we do what we do should all be because of the WHO. The WHO should be our starting point as Christians.
From Paul’s letter to the Colossians:
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross. (1:15-20, The Message)
Prayer: Holy God, we sometimes forget who is our head, who holds us together, who leads the resurrection parade. Fix and fit our broken pieces together so that we may be made whole in Jesus Christ, the one in whom we find our purpose and our very lives. Amen.
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