Found a good article in Church Solutions magazine, "Tradition Vs. Change – Innovate at Your Own Pace: Churches must review, reflect before implementing big
change", in which Ken Godevenos identified 12 principles on how to handle or avoid
change:
-- DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network
- The history of the church matters.
- The pastor’s personal comfort zone matters.
- Realize you cannot keep everybody happy.
- Your options are limited.
- If you bring about change, you can lead, lag or lead/lag the
community.
- If you stay traditional, you risk losing the youth of your church ...
- If you try to be both by having two different services each week, you risk informally splitting your church ...
- Quality and excellence matter, regardless of approach.
- Don’t forget the men.
- Rethink the purpose of worship.
- Do whatever you have to in order to teach your congregants to pray.
- Finally, remember what the church is all about.
-- DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network
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