April 15, 2015

Change is healthy. Change is good. Change is normal.

All living things change. Or they die.

The church is no exception to that.

No, we don’t change the essential doctrines. They are our foundation. Messing around with the foundation doesn’t bring change, it causes collapse.

As I outlined recently in Kill Your Church Traditions Before They Kill Your Church, everything but our biblical essentials must be subject to change.

Just as churches that change the essentials will collapse, a church that isn’t willing to change on non-essentials will die.

But how do we implement change in a church that has always resisted it? That is one of the great challenges of pastoring.

One key element in that is what I call the ABCS of change – Always Be Changing Something.

Here’s an example.