Pastor Fred Drummond gave his church leaders a list of programmes the congregation participated in and asked them to write down why they did these things. Many could not remember why certain programmes had started: not that they were bad, but people had been doing them for so long that they had forgotten their original purpose. Fred said, ‘I think these activities had been the passion of someone in leadership in the past. They had gone well at the start and people liked them - but then they just became part of the furniture. They are valued and take energy and capacity to maintain, but are they still fit for purpose? Having chatted to a variety of leaders of different ages, I found how quickly our thinking can become dominated by such programmes and activities. We keep the plates spinning as best we can because we know people like them, and we begin to use up more and more resources in order to sustain them.’