How many CEOs or politicians or pastors or husbands have we seen fall apart on integrity? A lot. It's one of the things we have to keep high and 'above water' in our personal lives. Without personal integrity, we don't have much. So we have to have permission-giving systems built into our lives - we have to have people who can correct us - people who can probe with no fear of retribution - people who can periodically ask: "Who was that? ... Why were you there? ... Where are you going? ... I see some chinks in the way you're leading your family ... at your work ... with your honesty ... "
Then we also have to do that at a Divine level. Is God able to do that with us? "Search me, O God; know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there is any sinful way in me." (Psalm 139:23, 24)
Are we doing that on a regular basis personally?
We've had to do that with each other as a KFA staff. I'm proud and thankful that we have men and women on our team who pay attention to their personal integrity. We challenge each other on it regularly.
We've also had to give focus to our missional integrity. As an organization, are we doing what the Bible calls us to? Because being integrity-driven is one of our eight KFA core values.
You go to some fast food restaurant and they have their organizational core values posted on the wall. They are:
Good Service
Nutritious Food
A Clean Facility
Great. But you're standing there waiting fifteen minutes for a bean burrito squirted out of a caulk gun and the bathroom is nasty. In that case, it doesn't matter what's on the wall. There's no missional integrity there.
So at KFA, we have to constantly remind ourselves what our mission is so we have organizational integrity. Our mission is to love the city of Kenosha and do whatever we can to give away the Gospel however we can at every opportunity to a world that's walking away from God. We know our mission.
Join us in it.
And be blessed.
Then we also have to do that at a Divine level. Is God able to do that with us? "Search me, O God; know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there is any sinful way in me." (Psalm 139:23, 24)
Are we doing that on a regular basis personally?
We've had to do that with each other as a KFA staff. I'm proud and thankful that we have men and women on our team who pay attention to their personal integrity. We challenge each other on it regularly.
We've also had to give focus to our missional integrity. As an organization, are we doing what the Bible calls us to? Because being integrity-driven is one of our eight KFA core values.You go to some fast food restaurant and they have their organizational core values posted on the wall. They are:
Good Service
Nutritious Food
A Clean Facility
Great. But you're standing there waiting fifteen minutes for a bean burrito squirted out of a caulk gun and the bathroom is nasty. In that case, it doesn't matter what's on the wall. There's no missional integrity there.
'We have to constantly remind ourselves what our mission is so we have organizational integrity.'
So at KFA, we have to constantly remind ourselves what our mission is so we have organizational integrity. Our mission is to love the city of Kenosha and do whatever we can to give away the Gospel however we can at every opportunity to a world that's walking away from God. We know our mission.
Join us in it.
And be blessed.
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