Day 134 and sorry its been a few days been plowing my way through Organization Change: A Comprehensive Reader.....and believe me its comprehensive - all 998 pages.
Real interesting story:
The artillery division of the British Army in the First World War determined that an artillery unit was to consist of loaders, an aimer, discarders and three persons to hold the horses because of noise.
At the start of the Second World War the guns were now all mechanized - but you guessed it - the three horse holders were still part of the artillery unit!
Change.
Been thinking a lot about change and change leadership as Redeemer's Church and I have been together for 7 years.
Seen great changes in the past 7 years.
But ......more's coming.
It's the 7 year cycle.
Good things happening, much growth, new ideas, new things, new people.
But now's the time we need to take bigger steps of bigger change.
Normally churches plateau at the 800 number.
Things are good, people around, a buzz.
But entropy lurks and subtly you wake up 3 years later and its too late.
So ...998 pages of reading, much prayer and rethinking all adds up to a fun Saturday and an intentional follow of Jesus Christ for an assistant kingdom builder based in Reedley, CA!
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I'm intrigued by this post. I have been following your blog for quite some time and have enjoyed your thoughts and experiences. However, I am bit surprised by your sentence, "Normally churches plateau at the 800 number."
This sentence seems to divert from what I have read of your ministry philosophy on this blog. It seems to imply that continuous numerical growth in a single church is inherently positive and that having a more static number of attenders is inherently negative. You even go so far as to say that such consistency is synonymous with "entropy."
I don't mean for you to infer that I am criticizing you in any way. If text could more thoroughly convey tone I promise you would know that I am commenting with a sincere curiosity.
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