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Learn how to work for genuine and effective change in your church without trying to throw out everything that has gone before. Pastors and other congregational leaders are eager to institute meaningful and effective change in their congregations. They know that old attitudes and perspectives prevent the church from fulfilling its mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Yet too often church advocates insist that if genuine change is to occur in the church, then everything must change. The board must be wiped clean, and new technologies, new worship styles, and even new theologies must replace what has come before. The problem with such calls for radical change, says Lovett Weems, Jr., is that they are not true to the way that genuine and lasting change takes place. Like every other organization, churches rest on a cultural foundation of shared assumptions, values, and practices. The paradox of successful change is that this foundation is at the same time the source of resistance to change and what makes change possible. Lasting, transformational change grows out of the congregation's current sense of its story and its mission. Transformational leaders know how to build on the church's identity, making new ministries and emphases the natural extension of what has gone before. In other words they know how to make the story of change the next chapter in the book of the congregation's life, rather than throwing the book away and trying to start over. An astute student of management and leadership theory, Weems offers congregational leaders essential insights into how they can work with and through their churches' ministries to bring about authentic and faithful growth. TAKE THE NEXT STEP......Page 2 Introduction--What Happens When the World Changes?......Page 3 Difficulty of Change......Page 4 Necessity of change......Page 5 Change Through Evolution or Revolution?......Page 7 Change Is Changing......Page 9 Importance of Leadership......Page 10 1--First Create Trust......Page 11 Components of Trust......Page 12 Relationships......Page 13 Character......Page 15 Competence......Page 17 Trust Becomes Leadership Through an Inspiring Vision......Page 19 Oblivious to Reality......Page 21 Prophetic Description Before Prescription......Page 22 Differing Views of Reality......Page 24 Seeing the Whole Picture......Page 25 Using Questions for Insight, Not Blame......Page 26 Reframing......Page 29 Intervention Options for Leaders......Page 31 3--Discern a Vision......Page 33 What is Culture?......Page 34 The Power of Organizational Culture......Page 35 YOUR Congregation's Story......Page 36 What About the Bad Things in a Congregation?......Page 38 Finding a Bridge to YOUR Congregation's Next Chapter......Page 40 YOUR Congregation's Next Generation......Page 41 Becoming More of What YOU Have Always Been......Page 42 Phase Three: Maintenance......Page 45 Phase Six: Crisis or Death......Page 46 Searching for God's Vision......Page 47 Listening with a Spiritual Ear......Page 48 Vision Is Not Created But Discovered......Page 49 Looking for Clues......Page 51 Negative Clues......Page 52 Chaos and Visioning......Page 53 Difference Between Mission and Vision......Page 55 Congregational Identity (Who YOU Are)......Page 57 History......Page 58 Key Strengths......Page 59 Statistics and Trends......Page 60 Statistics and Trends......Page 61 Doing a SWOT Analysis......Page 63 Clues in Small Things......Page 64 Strength in Recurring Themes......Page 65 Who Names the Vision?......Page 66 Who Does the Visioning?......Page 67 View Change from the Perspective of Others......Page 69 Pacing Change and Regulating Pain......Page 70 Need for Planning......Page 71 The Leader as Storyteller......Page 72 Stay on Message......Page 74 Live Your Way into a New Way of Thinking......Page 75 Support the Vision and Align All Systems......Page 76 Recognize the Vision......Page 77 Stakeholders......Page 78 Skeptics, Critics, and Adversaries......Page 79 Decline Has a Long Head Start on Renewal......Page 82 No Golden Ages......Page 83 7--The Power of Vision......Page 84 Vision Permeates Everything......Page 85 Vision Produces Leaders......Page 86 Vision Produces Miracles......Page 87 8--Persevere......Page 89 Cathedral Builders......Page 90 Everything Looks Like Failure in the Middle......Page 92 Obedience and Patience—Two Complementary Spiritua......Page 93 No Guarantees......Page 95 Stay Alive, Keep Praying, and Keep Working......Page 96 Vision as a Constellation of Stars......Page 98 The Soul of the Congregation......Page 99 Notes......Page 100 TAKE THE NEXT STEP......Page 109