Today is July 3 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you find yourself believing that if you ‘go to church that automatically makes you a Christian?
Canadian educator Laurence Johnston Peter said "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.” I would like to add “going to a yoga class doesn’t make you a yogi any more than having the corner office makes you a leader.”
He became widely famous in 1968, on the publication of The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong. The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.
This is the "generalised Peter Principle." Peter noted that there is a strong temptation for people to use what has worked before, even when this might not be appropriate for the current situation. In an organizational structure, assessing an employee's potential for a promotion is often based on their performance in the current job. This eventually results in their being promoted to their highest level of competence and potentially then to a role in which they are not competent, referred to as their "level of incompetence. “
Successful people that navigate the chaos work hard at not suffering from the Peter Principle. Those who carefully navigate understand that if you go to church that does not automatically make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.
How often do you find yourself believing that if you ‘go to church that automatically makes you a Christian?’