To ask church members to close down a once-cherished ministry to make room for something new, to reallocate support from a beloved foreign missionary to a new local missional initiative, to experiment with new forms of worship, to restructure the staff for less ministry to church members and more projects to reach out to the unchurched, or to even reconsider their very “beliefs, habits and values” (the core of adaptive work) will require far more than agreeing that the pastor “knows what he is doing.”
