{"id":7947,"date":"2010-12-14T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2012-08-18T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:54:20","slug":"after-you-make-the-decision-what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7947","title":{"rendered":"After you make the decision, what next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Replaces post that disappeared during Web host problems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We were in a meeting talking about how our congregation makes decisions. And engineer told us what happened after they made decisions in her for-profit workplace. She said, \u201cWe used to have a saying: Agree and commit; Disagree and commit; or, Get out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In congregational life, as in the for-profit world, there\u2019s usually a fourth option: Disagree and sabotage. A decision is made by a duly constituted authority, or through an established democratic process, and a small group of people who disagree with the decision start to sabotage it. And why wouldn\u2019t we behave in this way? That\u2019s the way democracy in America works: once a decision is made, many politicians (both Democrats and Republicans) go out of their way to sabotage the implementation of the decision. Ordinary citizens like us unconsciously follow their example.<\/p>\n<p>But I think our congregations should be countercultural; we should not do democracy the way many U.S. politicians do democracy. We shouldn\u2019t blindly adopt the standard from the engineering world, but it might be a good starting place:<\/p>\n<p>Agree and commit;<br \/>\nDisagree and commit; or<br \/>\nGet out of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replaces post that disappeared during Web host problems. We were in a meeting talking about how our congregation makes decisions. And engineer told us what happened after they made decisions in her for-profit workplace. She said, \u201cWe used to have a saying: Agree and commit; Disagree and commit; or, Get out of the way.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-administration","tag-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8151,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}