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When church committees can't reconcile competing visions for their community

Our church committee keeps having the same fights about budget and programming and it's becoming clear that we fundamentally disagree about what our congregation should be. Half of us want to preserve tradition and half want radical change and we're exhausting ourselves trying to find middle ground that satisfies no one.

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A group tasked with serving something larger than themselves discovers they cannot agree on what that something actually is.

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