Promoting Body Life when making changes provides safeguards for the following reasons:
1) Body Life engenders Mutual Trust.
People must trust you to have their best interests at heart and you must trust them to be a part of the change process.
2) Body Life requires the Participation of Others in the change process.
Since body life is based on interdependence, it is therefore necessary to seek the input of others ideally at every stage but at least for some of the process.
Learn the Safeguards During Change that Body Life Provides Along with Other Leadership Responsibilities
The Steering the Church Toward Body Life Leadership Guide expounds on these two points about how Body Life provides safeguards in the change process. It also looks at 24 other leadership skills or tasks in light of leaders’ responsibility promote and practice God’s Design for the Church.
All Posts about Change Management:
- Managing Change According to Church Purpose?
- Body Life Critical to Change Management
- Body Life Provides Safeguards During Change
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Managing Change Well Takes Christ-like Thinking
- Managing Change Well Takes Christ-like Attitudes
- Managing Change Well Takes Christ-like Actions
- Power to Navigate Change Well
- Power of Gospel Gives Perspective in Change Management
- Grace Bookend Your Change Process?
- The Spirit Helps Us Navigate Change
- Power for Change in the Name of the Lord
- Change in His Name
- Change For His Name’s Sake
- Change Possible Because of Resurrection Power
- A Change Process Leading to Growth
- Usefulness of Scripture in Change Management
- Bible Verses to Help in the Change Process
- Need to Make Changes? First Ask, Seek, Knock.
- Guiding People to Navigate Change Well
Bear with one another (Eph. 4:2)
One of women in our church has natural reactionary tendency to any kind of change. I’m talking about really not good reactions. I find that bearing with her, patiently hearing her out, she eventually comes around and is then one of my biggest supporters.
Thank you, Pst. Doug, for that good example of what can happen when we bear with one another. God gave us these one another commands because they work to build understanding and unity.