In class today we discussed a possible way that our action plan for our case study could be put into motion. We shouldn’t expect our plan to happen immediately or even in a month, or even 6 months. Change takes time. The first step to initiate change is to build awareness of reality, secondly it is important to develop understanding of the alternate, better reality, thirdly you must evaluate possible ways to attain the new and improved reality. Fourth you must experiment with one of your community’s new ideas (usually an easy one), and lastly the community must decide as one consensus group on the action plan. The plan must be facilitated by the leaders but not imposed. Change must be wanted. Dr. Bolger said we can expect a 1-2 year process to get through all five of these steps. I do not necessarily think that my case study needs to go through all five steps in this exact order to accomplish what it is setting out to do. But it will take a team of people all wanting the same thing. And it will take time. This list gives me something good to think about as I make an action plan for my church plant.

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