Is your congregation in the maintenance mode? Is the focus on paying the bills and living from month to month? The "maintenance mode" is an indicator of poor health or identity issues. Generally this mode stems from a prevailing sense of meaninglessness and purposelessness. Often the primary goal is merely to keep the peace and bury the dead. This posture is fostered in a non-reflective lifestyle wherein the congregation ceases to discern who it is or what it is to be about. The ill health becomes visible in patterns of behavior that expect conformity to "the way we do things here." It is typified with a rather blind allegiance to authority.