Leading a church requires delicate balance. One often must work a fine line in between two equally worthy ideas, which are oppositional to one another. I suspect you need an example, because you are already wondering how two oppositional ideas can both be worthy ideas. The topic of this article is one such example.
One of the principles I choose to emphasize in my church is empowerment. I believe any church member might be led by God to start a new ministry. If they are committed to this ministry they can approach the church with a workable plan and gain approval to form this ministry with the blessing and support of our church.
On the other side of the coin is the simple church principle. This is the idea that if the church is too busy doing a diverse collection of ministries they will soon not be doing any of them well. Instead of all the different ministries making disciples they will be competing for the limited resources, money and workers, the church has to offer. Instead a simple church will have one path of discipleship, one process of disciple making, one plan for turning out disciples.
I believe in empowerment. If God did not want to put every member of the church to work, why gift every member with different abilities and passions?
I also believe that if the devil can’t make you bad, he will make you busy. The church that is exhausted will not be nurturing maturity. Burnout is a poor substitute for discipleship.
Somewhere in between these two poles is the path that God want’s the individual church to take.
Charles W. Short 