The church will have to come to grips with this as well. Measuring commitment by attendance at Sunday services and business meetings will cost the church dearly. God called us into intimacy and not busyness. We live in a world of new behaviors and new roles that have to be re-defined as we go and are on the trot. We are looking at a world where there must be shared leadership that focuses attention on the whole health of their organization rather than just on process and productivity.
People do and want to contribute and are no longer willing or satisfied to be treated as followers.
They have got sense and intelligence and if this is ignored they will either become silent or simply move away. Loyalty is not what it used to be either now days and leadership will have to re invent themselves as they go. Teams are becoming more self empowered and want responsibility. There is a farewell to hierarchy and leadership is becoming more ambiguous. Some authority will have to be given up wether leaders like it or not.