Its How You Say It.

Genesis 11: 6
“Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set their mind out to do will be impossible for them!”

This scripture is in the middle of the story of the tower of babel in the Bible. It was not long after the Flood that the people of the Earth were all gathered together in one place, speaking the same language. They set out to build a tower to the heavens. A crazy task, but one that even God thought they could complete because of one reason.

They were united in speaking the same language. And speaking the same language made it so that nothing was impossible for them.

So…. It gets me thinking that if we (by we, I am referring to our teams, organizations, groups, etc.) are facing the impossible and not getting anywhere, then it is possible that we are not unified in speaking the same language.

At the Oasis, our language is a huge consideration. Being here just shy a year now,  our Pastor has rarely “corrected” me. But I have realized that every time a corrective conversation or comment has been had, it has has been around the language I have used.

Our language is vital to our organization. How we say things has at times been more important then what we were saying. At every creative meeting, a large chunk of time has been spent on the words we use. And once the team buy’s into the language, the task we set out to accomplish seems to transition from impossible to possible, from difficult to easy.

For me, it becomes obvious that if the team is all talking about the same thing the same way, execution becomes easy.

That is all.