S2:E5 Embracing Change, Part 2

Jim, let's talk about throwing our nets to the other side of the boat.

A great sermon from Hillsborough that we were able to dig a little bit deeper into and really frame what that means to have the trust in the Lord to do what we ought to do as churches and trusting God for the future.

And And I want to spend a little bit of time today just talking about practically what that looks like.

I mean, it's great to read the Scripture, great to see the stories from the Bible, of course, and great to hear good preaching on that.

But putting those things into practice, that's where the challenge lies for a lot of us in everyday life, but especially in the church, where maybe one of the leaders in the church is like, yeah, let's throw those nets.

And other guys are like, no, we're never moving these nets.

How do we navigate that? So I think today would be a great day for you to really just open the door and help us better understand that.

This

is not an endorsement of Rick Warren at all, but I will tell you when the book, The Purpose Driven Church came out, I got a copy, you know, I just saw the name of it.

And in my mind, I'm thinking, okay, I'm serving in a church and I really want it to have purpose.

I don't want it to be a purposeless church.

I don't want it to have no definition, no goals, no aspirations.

So I got it.

I read it.

And personally, personally, I would never endorse everything in that book.

Certainly never endorse everything Rick Warren has taught.

That's for sure.

It did help me reprogram and kind of recalibrate the way I was leading as an evangelist at the church.

And I literally went to our leadership and said, I think there's some things that we're doing that are ineffective.

We're tossing the nets on the same side, expecting the same results, getting nothing.

But either we're too lazy or don't have enough vision to do something very uncomfortable.

And that's rethink our policies and procedures, not our doctrine.

Let me make that clear.

But the methods that we're using.

And so when we started to cognitively have a bias towards doing things different, if what we're doing isn't working, we begin to see incredible change and difference in the attitude of the church.