we’ve got the mission — let’s build the budget
During his trip to Lambeth this past summer, Bishop Waggoner happened upon Canterbury Cathedral and a plaque displaying their mission statement. Now, for a very large, historic Cathedral, you’d have reasonable expectations that the actual mission of the place might be buried between and beneath years and years of insider language and theological jargon. Such was apparently Bishop Waggoner’s assumption when he arrived at the plaque and, so, you can imagine his surprise when he read the following mission statement for Canterbury Cathedral: “to show people Jesus.” That’s it, “to show people Jesus.”
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