Openness to Change

Description

A healthy church is innovative and willing to try new things to be faithful to its mission and reach people with the good news of Jesus Christ. It can be agile in its thinking and can adapt quickly to new realities.

Guiding Scripture Passages

1 Cor. 9:20-21

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law.

Considerations Regarding Your Score

• How recently did you spend time discerning God’s direction for your church?
• What new things have sprung up at your church in the last 3 years?
• How strong is the resistance to change in your congregation?
• What strategies are in place to help people adjust to change in the church?
• What ministries/mission foci are no longer working? How can they either be adapted to current reality or be replaced?
• How can the congregation be like Paul in his adaptability?