Making Meetings More Meaningful
This week’s featured story from Alban Weekly is Preventing Burnout in Board Members. Lawrence Peers’ 6 suggestions for making board meetings more than “business as usual” include this:
1. Begin the meeting with a time of prayer, meditation, or reflection on Scripture to remind the board that its work is sacred. Sometimes I’ve observed a board beginning with prayer or reflection but then rushing into its agenda to get to the “real work.” When done well, this worship-full beginning is not merely another agenda item to check off but a way to set the tone and context for the board’s work.
Peers’ article is an apt reminder that church meetings are an ideal setting for reflection on the purpose and practice of worship. John Witvliet addresses this, and offers practical points, in a recent Q&A column in Reformed Worship, which is reprinted at CICW’s Teaching Worship collection.
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