The Power of Culture

Culture is so sick in churches that you can't just take a pastor and remove them and put someone else in that spot and change the culture. It's not going to happen. Transformation is pervasive. And I want to talk about that today. Let's use the image of a peach tree. People who come to church on Sunday and sit in pews just care about mostly about the fruit that drops from the tree. But that fruit is produced by a tree. The tree is the culture. And underneath that culture is soil that you and I probably know nothing about. In toxic church cultures, this is what we've discovered to be characteristic of the soil. Greed. Dominating power