174. About Change
Quotes from August 1994 issue of Forum Files, reporting on the "1994 Church in the 21st Century Conference" sponsored by Leadership Network in Minneapolis last June. They are directly related to your pastoral care structure and ministry.
"What have to be masters of change and we have to help people see that the temple religion is not what is going to survive ten years form now."
"The church dies when it is not mobilizing the resources God has given it."
-Gordon MacDonald
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"Church leadership must provide vision, and while recognizing the inevitable tension between vision and reality, never allow the vision to shrink down to the level of reality."
"We cannot become the church God is calling us to be until everybody's potential has been used and maximized to the most."
-Kirbyjon Caldwell, senior minister
Windsor Village United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas
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"In helping people through change, it is important to know that there are four distinct levels of change. The first level is knowledge. Knowledge is very easy to change. You give them something to read, perhaps a tape to listen to....the point is that people learn something.
The second level, attitude, is much together to change. It is an emotionally charged bit of knowledge...now you know something and you feel very strongly about it in a positive or negative way.
The third and more difficult level is behaviour. You gotta do something.....you have to overcome a habit...an old way of doing things....you have to get rid of one thing and put in something else.
The fourth and most difficult level organizational change. It takes three to five years to make a major change in an organization. It is much easier to start new a new church than to change an old one because it is tough to redirect power."
-Ken Blanchard, management consultant and author
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"There are six obstacles to change: (1) an unbiblical view of the role of the pastor; (2) the habit of response rather than proactivity; (3) the high skeptical toward leaders and institutions; (4) the difficulty of the change process itself; (5) the confusion of methodology with substance; (6) the problem of financing the change process."
-Doug Murren, pastor, Washington
첫댓글 “모든 사람의 잠재력이 사용되고 또 최상을 통해 극대화 될 때까지는 하나님께서 우리에게 요구하는 교회가 될 수 없다.”YES.
Dear Beloved Byeong,
Thanks for sending the news of upcoming LPM conference for Foreigners to be held in Seoul by November 2014. Beloved, this is good news. I would like to participate as one of Guest Speakers in this conference as I have always done in the past LPM conference held in Korea. I would be very grateful to lead a workshop and help this upcoming Lay Ministers/Pastors understand the rudiment and benefit of LPM to their churches and Lives. Please kindly include me as one of the Guest Speaker/Workshop Leader in this upcoming LPM Conference by November 2014.
Daniel, Africa
샬롬! 서 목사님, 수고가 많지요?
본론으로 들어가서.. 이곳에도 한인교역자들 중심으로 PACE 훈련이 필요하니 날짜를 전번 제가 보내드린 이멜로 마추어 오시면 좋겠다는 생각이듭니다. 숙소는 제가 준비하겠읍니다. 서목사님에겐 무료로요 물론... 이번 3월 초에 그렇게 계획하지 않으면 크게 후회^^를 할것입니다.
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