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  • Change or Die?

    We have seen over and over that the biggest hurdle to embracing the real value of better information systems in churches is change management, or should I say the lack thereof? Amongst us church management software vendors, it is even a point of occasional conversation at industry conferences. “If only churches would learn better how to change.” ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  jhook  on December 14, 2007
  • What stops a church from fully Experiencing Fellowship One?

    As I write this blog entry for our new community site, I contemplated the above question: What stops a church from fully experiencing Fellowship One? There are many different answers for the various customer situations ranging from 1) lack of leadership to drive change, 2) staff turnover, 3) lack of infrastructure for proper Internet access, ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  jhook  on November 1, 2007
  • Managing change versus avoiding change

    Although I used to think that you should not break something if it is not broken; I am now convinced that in order to make improvements, change must happen and that change requires you to break things in order to build other things. If change is to happen, old processes and old habits, no matter how well they are working, must be broken to ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on October 3, 2006
  • Acceptable insanity?

    One of the things that we have encountered as we implement some churches is their lack of wanting to change the way they “do church,” yet wanting to experience different results.  I participated in a seminar once that characterized such behavior as “insanity” – doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting ...
    Posted to Accelerating the Dynamic Church (Weblog) by  Jeff Hook  on March 28, 2006