You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
Jul 13, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary conclude their series on what ACTS XXIX calls their apostolic values — the “how” of their mission, which is equally as important as the “what”. This week they look…
John RiccardoHost
Mary GuilfoyleHost
So we're doing this series right now, which is basically on the how of what we do in Acts 29.
where he encourages every organization to really focus on becoming organizationally healthy and not just smart.
And one of the ways to do that is to answer a number of questions to make sure that the organization has clarity about those questions.
And one of those questions is how do we behave? And in answering those questions, a company comes up with, or an organization, or a family for that matter, or a marriage, comes up with what we would call core values.
It's a constant reminder to us of the reality that not just what we do is important, but how we do what we do is important.
One of the things that the church continually struggles with, one of the things I continually struggle with is, all the more so when I was pastor, was falling into what I would call a hyper-functional, transactional mode of relating to people.
And that's not to say that we shouldn't be organized and all that, for goodness sakes.
Our task is to rescue, renew, and transform the human family into the family of God.
And we've seen oftentimes, and I'm sure I've done this oftentimes in the past when I was in parish life, we tend to excel at serving the people and pouring into the people whom we minister to.
Unfortunately, we tend to be pathetic all too often at actually pouring into the people with whom we do the ministry, and we just treat each other, unfortunately, rather poorly.
I know I did that, and I can still struggle with doing that, especially when I get really stressed.
So we're doing this series right now, which is basically on the how of what we do in Acts 29.
where he encourages every organization to really focus on becoming organizationally healthy and not just smart.
And one of the ways to do that is to answer a number of questions to make sure that the organization has clarity about those questions.
And one of those questions is how do we behave? And in answering those questions, a company comes up with, or an organization, or a family for that matter, or a marriage, comes up with what we would call core values.
It's a constant reminder to us of the reality that not just what we do is important, but how we do what we do is important.
One of the things that the church continually struggles with, one of the things I continually struggle with is, all the more so when I was pastor, was falling into what I would call a hyper-functional, transactional mode of relating to people.
And that's not to say that we shouldn't be organized and all that, for goodness sakes.
Our task is to rescue, renew, and transform the human family into the family of God.
And we've seen oftentimes, and I'm sure I've done this oftentimes in the past when I was in parish life, we tend to excel at serving the people and pouring into the people whom we minister to.
Unfortunately, we tend to be pathetic all too often at actually pouring into the people with whom we do the ministry, and we just treat each other, unfortunately, rather poorly.
I know I did that, and I can still struggle with doing that, especially when I get really stressed.
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