Jesus the Change Manager

"Too many good people become disengaged with church life"

A major challenge of change management is how we enable and help people to process radical change. This can especially be the case in churches that believe and practice leadership authority. What can happen is that eldership / leadership teams spend a lot of time processing the changes and most importantly where each one of them fit in to the new structures.

Unfortunately, in a lot of cases the same amount of process time is not given to the other people who are affected in the church. The result of this is that there are too many good people become disengaged with church life because, in their leader’s opinion, they handled change badly, and subsequently have been written off by the leaders.

I want to show how Jesus initiated the idea to his apostles that a major change was going take place with his death, resurrection & ascension. Looking at the narrative from the gospels we are going to see:-

1.  How Jesus’ leadership decisions affected the apostles
2.  How Jesus prepared them for a major transition
3.  How the apostles responded to the concepts
4.  How Jesus handled there response
5.  Jesus explains what is most important

Jesus the Change Manager

A major challenge of change management is how we enable and help people to process radical change. This can especially be the case in churches that believe and practice leadership authority. What can happen is that eldership / leadership teams spend a lot of time processing the changes and most importantly where each one of them fit in to the new structures.