Organizational Change ...

For me things like tension and anxiety have become motivations for personal healthy changes, and my hope is that through leading, coaching and instruction change will become healthy in local churches and denominations as well.

I have said for years that if you want to find out more about disagreements in church just read the scriptures! Like this morning I read Acts 15. It tells the story of an anxiety moment in the church when Gentiles (who may not have been familiar with the Jewish laws) came into the predominantly Jewish-Christian church, and at that point this question was raised:

'Shouldn't church newcomers be like us?'

And after debate the answer that was given was this: the only way they should be like us is they should worship only God, (and other than that they can be themselves even though they are different from us). (Acts 15:28-29)

P.S. If you would like to do further reading on healthy ways of working for healthy organizational change the top work I would recommend is by Donna J. Markham entitled Spiritlinking Leadership: Working through Resistance to Organizational Change. It is good for group study for it includes a good set of discussion questions after each chapter.