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Who Moved My Pulpit?
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Yes, who did change your Constitution? But, then again, which version of the Constitution is valid. On that no one seems to want to agree. I volunteered about six months ago to help draft a new Constitution and never heard another word...I would think that "Moving the pulpit" in any church would be a big deal. And, while many parishioners would just accept this change, many others would find this "shock of the new" physically and emotionally upsetting. Ironically, I experienced a similar issue when on a detail to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Security Office, I proposed rearranging the desks in the office to better accommodate the flow of people in and out of the office. I did consult with everyone that was effected by these changes and I thought that I had "buy in" when I made them. And, guess what, people were still upset. There is just something disquieting about change that rattles the nerves.
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It may be that change, even when it's on a piece of paper, is much harder than we think. The book suggests that we should spend much time in prayer about change before we ever begin to make the change. I don't think we often do it backwards. We jump into change and then think to pray when it doesn't go quite right. We wait until we are in a crisis to pray. We should learn that prayer first often keeps us from having the crisis. I am very guilty of jumping in and having a new way to do something. I am always very sure that if people would just do it my way then it would all run better. That is really arrogant and self-centered and certainly no way to bring about change but I keep falling into that over and over.
Well do you think the other people are going to jump in join our conversation? I imagine most have read the entire book. I was trying to give the ones who bought the last of the books on Sunday a chance to catch up. So if anyone else is out there, speak up.
I think we have all had enough time to read the first chapter. Many of us have probably already read the entire book. It is rather short but I thought that would help us to feel good about getting one done and then we can decide if we want to keep going. So anyone have any comments after reading the first chapter? There are so discussion questions that I will put out there and the group can talk about it as a whole. I thought it would be good to hear some first impressions to start with. While I was reading thru the book I kept thinking that we could have titled this Who Changed My Constitution? and it would have really applied to First Church of late. So anyone have any thoughts as to why a congregation would get so upset over such a thing as moving the pulpit?