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Church leaders have the potential to model power that comes from a starting point rare in this world: a starting point of truth and mercy, of grace and dignity, of regard and respect. This is the kind of power that will truly save the world.

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By Lewis Reader on September 27, 2016

Previous ArticleA church must know its mission, but that is never enough. Churches implement their mission in an ever-changing environment that will shape how the mission is expressed to produce fruit. Vijay Govindarajan, an expert in strategy and innovation, suggests these questions for organizations:

What factors and conditions does our current success depend on?
Which of these factors might change over time or are changing already, thus putting current success at risk?
How can we begin to anticipate and prepare for these possible changes?

Next Article While leadership is always about change, change is not the first movement in leadership. Jim Collins and Jerry Porras help us understand the proper sequence when they remind us that “Contrary to popular wisdom, the proper first response to a changing world is not to ask, ‘How should we change?’” They offer a better first question:

“‘What do we stand for and why do we exist?’ This should never change. And then feel free to change everything else.”

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