Change - Part 4

Correlation between vision and change?

A vision will generate the need for change without necessarily helping it to happen - Peter Brierley

Formula for change - C = (D + V + B + F) > £

C=Change
D=Dissatisfaction - Israel were comfortable in the land of Egypt. Then the order to kill male babies came through and then the people became discontented and only then, was Moses able to call them out of Egypt to go to the promised land
V=Vision - Without vision or an indication of what is going to happen, change is hard to effect. The Israelites were told of the promised land as ‘a land of milk and honey’. Moses didn’t mention problems such as crossing the Red Sea; travelling the desert; Sinai thundering; forty years wandering etc.
B=Belief - Is there somebody who can be trusted to see the change through? All the miracles were enough to make the Israelites trust Moses, and bind them to their leader.
F=First Step - This obviously needs to be taken. For the Israelites, it was killing a young lamb and painting their door frames with the resultant blood.. When they did that, the Egyptians begged them to go whilst giving them gold and silver!

Dissatisfaction, Vision, Belief and First Steps are the four inherent parts of change.
However….

£=Cost & Disadvantages - Change wont take place unless the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. The Israelites saw the weeping Egyptians and decided not to stay, so they took their possessions, the Egyptian gold and silver and fled! We need to allow the Holy Spirit to make things happen more radically and quickly than we can anticipate or imagine. It only took 14 days for the Israelites’ final call.

Saying You Don't Do Change is not an option.