Proper feedback

​Feedback is your friend. We should welcome it. It is not always easy to hear but is should be appreciated when it is given from a proper heart and in the proper way. With that said, let me introduce you to the least effective way of communicating a negative or a concern which is to do so with an “Anonymous Note.” What makes this an improper as well as an ineffective way of communicating a concern or a negative?  First, to do so is to communicate a concern in an unbiblical manner.  According to Matthew 18, if someone offends us we are to go to them.  There is no room in those instructions for anonymous notes of a negative nature.  This is true even if the note is cloaked in the spiritual looking signature, “a concerned brother” or “a concerned sister in Christ.” Second, when notes and letters are turned in anonymously it is impossible to be able to make a contact with the writer to have an honest dialogue about the concern. As a result, there is very little evaluation or action that can be made due to an anonymous note.  Feedback is our friend and there is a lot we can and should learn from it, but for this to happen, feedback must be given in the proper way.