Change and Transition

On the 27th Feb this year, Victory Church celebrated its 17th birthday. This was cause for great celebration and reflection. Among the many memories I have over the years, the thing that stands out the most is the amount of change that has occurred during this time.
As wonderful and necessary as the changes have been, they were seldom embraced with the greatest deal of enthusiasm. Lets face it, change is never easy! There's only one thing people hate more than change and that is rapid change. Whether we like it or not change is here to stay and we must accept this fact.

Some important facts about change are as follows...

1. Change is the requirement for existence.
The continuation of any organization depends on change. The whole idea of change is to preserve that which does not change. For example - The mandate of the church has not changed - Go into all the world and make disciples of Christ. (Mat.28:19). Yet the world in which we live is a vastly different place to when those words were first spoken. We, the church have had to change our approach, language, style, etc. to preserve the unchanging mandate to disciple the nations. We must resist the temptation of the church becoming a museum to the former things at the expense of our future.
For this reason I believe that we must embrace all forms of technology in order to communicate the unchanging message of the church. This is not a matter of personal preference, it is a requirement! The more we stand still and resist change the more people go to hell.

To be continued ...