Why Leaders Should Insist On Change

Real leaders know and insist on change in the church where they lead.

Here’s a thought you can use when you lead to change, discuss change in a sermon or another venue. This will help you to engage and groom your leaders with the importance of making consistent, necessary and timely change.

Little corrections save us from making inevitable big corrections.

Here’s why. If we drift two degrees at a time, before long we’re across several lanes. So all we have to do is make two degree changes to avoid making big changes.

I saw this illustrated the other day in traffic on a busy interstate. The driver was texting, shouldn’t have been, and gradually veered off to the edge of the highway. When she realized she was not in her lane, she immediately made the course correction of frantically jerking the steering wheel to the left. It was a major change that almost cost her life!

Just think. When leaders fail to make the two degree adjustments when they should and where they should, it guarantees a major change will be needed later on.

This is precisely why people in our churches resist change. They are conditioned to major changes which are usually painful, demanding and over-correcting because “in action” or the guts to change all along was neglected or delayed by the leader.

Leaders, don’t blame your people if they resist major changes because you haven’t made the little corrections consistently that create a culture that expects and understands change.

Understand this principle and you will be able to give a reasonable answer for change and be able to resist the temptation to "back off" change when others say they don't like it.