W. Edwards Deming on Change

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
~W. Edwards Deming

I like this on change as well.

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958

Thinking about change can come very naturally to some people - but to others it can feel like a painful unwanted break with all that is good and familiar. But change is part of the very nature of what we do in ministry. There is never room to manage.

To simply manage means to forget about going for the whole. To manage means accepting contentment with what we currently have. To manage gives us a false sense that we are being fully obedient to what Christ would have for us. Unless we are willing to change our practices, we will never achieve any greater results than what we currenlty have. Change can be the thing that forces us into situations of great faith and results in great breaktrough.