There’s a reason most companies and non-profits look for outside help when it comes to making major changes. It’s simply very difficult and often impossible to spawn new thinking in-house. As a result, leaders often bring in outside ideas and advice to spur change inside. That’s not to demean the value of your in-house ideas or creativity. The issue is perspective.
In fact, here’s a few key reasons that making real change happens usually takes an outsider:
- It’s difficult for in-house employees (especially long term employees) to get an objective view of the organization. …
Jesus clearly states that our role as Christians on the earth is a transformational one. We are called the “salt of the earth” (Matt. 5:13), and salt essentially does three major things: It adds flavor, it preserves and it heals. So our task is to bring flavor, preservation and healing to the world around us. This is why it is imperative that we ourselves be personally transformed from the inside out. If we have not been changed, we cannot bring out the “God-flavors” of this earth. In the same way that salt was never designed to …
If your church was to cease to exist, would your community ever notice or would they not even notice that your church was missing in action? Would they want to know what happened to that church which reduced crime in the community, mentored their children at the alternative learning center for delinquent students, provided free medical missions, conducted free sports league for children and youth, or let them use their facility to host community events. A church that does such things is called a community transformation church. These churches have in mind the intent of “going …
