How do we treat and handle change as leaders?
As Leaders we need top :
- Identify motives
- Be humble
- Be prayerful
- Assess importance
- Seek opinions
- Be wise with words
- Be persuasive
- Be understanding
- Be specific
- Be persistent
- Be submissive
The Bible and change
- Jesus challenged existing society and thinking. The idea that the Messiah would suffer and serve and live in poverty and humility, was unthinkable to the Jewish people prior to His coming.
- We have a God who makes all things new! (Rev.21:5)
- All changes throughout history have been innovative on the part of God - the flood; call of Abraham; the Mosaic covenant; the Incarnation - all reflect God’s creation and innovative change.
- Jesus takes broken lives and changes them into new creations!! (2 Corinthians5:14-21)
Acts 10 to Acts 11:18 - Change in the embryonic church
- The church had to change to incorporate the Gentiles (Acts 10)
- God started where Peter was (vv9-16)
- God allowed Peter to challenge the idea (vv14-15)
- God gave Peter time to work through his resistance (vv16-17)
- God permitted Peter to observe change on a limited basis
- The change proposal was well prepared (vv1-7, 19-23, 30-33) and God anticipated Peter’s questions and provided the answers
- God didn’t ask Peter to change, but rather invited him to participate in improving what Peter already loved and the advantage of the new over the old (v34)
- God convinced a key leader and allowed that leader to champion the change to others (Acts 11:1-18). God recognized that it is easier to work with an individual, rather than an entire group of people. This principle is also seen in his dealing wit the nation of Israel in the Old Testament.
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