One way to initiate change is to inflict emotional pain. Often medical doctors have to hurt people to heal them. The same goes for our churches. You have to get their attention, and a good way is to cause them pain or discomfort. You see, they have become too comfortable while immersed in the status quo. Consultant Lyle Schaller calls it rubbing raw the wounds of discontent. Bill Hybels says much the same when he writes, “Leaders move people from here to there. . . . The first play is not to make ‘there’ sound wonderful. The first play is to make ‘here’ sound awful.”[2] If you make “there”
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Initiate change by inflicting pain as a physician has to inflict pain to heal, inflicting discomfort to change the status quo to cause change
