20 ways to mess up a church....

....the actual article is about 20 ways to screw up one's management career, and it is of course always dangerous to use business as a metaphor for the church.  However, in this case, if one substitutes "congregants" for employees and "deacons" or "elders" for "yes men," it seems like a very good warning to pastors.  Churches function best when leaders dream big and convey the significance of that dream to believers in an appropriate way.