Chaotic change is an uninvited guest. Like an unplanned extra person at an already too-small table, everything seems forced. Decisions have to be made before their time. People have to make room, take on new roles, or change habits even while leading.
Category: Accents of the Academy
Andrew Thompson ~ Reaction in Relationships: The Power to Forgive
We don’t seem to know how to choose love rather than reaction. Forgiveness is the very rhythm of redemption – our redemption and the redemption of all our relationships.
Maxie Dunnam ~ A Brand New Year: How to Leave Your Stuff Behind
What is some of the stuff you need to leave behind as you begin the new year? What can you drop off your weary, bending back to make your trek into the New Year a bit easier and far more meaningful?
Priscilla Hammond ~ What Change Models Look like in Your Congregation
If you have been a leader for very long, you have heard the question, "Why do we need to change?” In 1967, British Prime…
Aaron Perry ~ What a Baby Uncovers: The Judgment of Advent
“Advent is not simply an invitation to set our houses in order for his birth. Advent is an urgent opportunity to set our houses in order for Jesus’ return. By taking the opportunity to rightly order our lives, we may anticipate the glorious return of Jesus joyfully.”
Justus Hunter ~ Noise Without Word: Worship in a World of Static
“Ours is an age of noise. We exchange our history for comforting lies of other gods. We exchange our worship for spectacles. We exchange true justice for parodies, imitations, mimicry. We fill our lives with noise. We silence the Word of the Lord.
But the Word comes nevertheless, not in an earthquake or fire or rushing wind, but in this man, Jesus the Christ.”
Suzanne Nicholson ~ Answers in the Darkness: A Prayer
And so you teach me:
Certainty has become my idol.
Predictability.
Expectations met.
That looks like faith to me:
I ask, knowing that you can.
Priscilla Hammond ~ Decision-Making for Productive Change
When change “just happens,” it never happens to move the organization’s goals forward.
Aaron Perry ~ Desire and Duty in Everyday Life: The Narrative of Ethics
“There is membership not in what is owed to ourselves, but in what is owed to Christ because we are now in him.”
Priscilla Hammond ~ When Pastors Face Dysfunction: Leading Change for Congregational Health
How do we know when an organization isn’t healthy?