If the Cheese Fits - Wear It

This afternoon I read the book, “Who Moved My Cheese”, for those that don’t know this book is about change using the illustration of a couple of mice and two "littlepeople" hunting for cheese. In their search for cheese - you guessed it - their cheese gets moved. It is a look at the various ways we can deal with change.

“Change” is one of my favorite subjects. All my life I have done my very best to embrace change so it was a joy to be reminded of what a good practice that is.

You might as well anticipate change because it will happen. Adaptation to change is necessary to life. Unfortunately, too many people resist, even fight, inevitable change. Nowhere do I find this truer than in the church. Most business people get it when you talk about change but somehow the church refuses to accept the reality of change. Please don’t misunderstand me; I’m not talking about the changeless truth of the Bible or the changelessness of our God. I’m talking about even the tiniest of changes setting people off in the church.

I’ve had people in the church go bonkers over some of the pettiest changes; usually it involves moving one of their icons. Over the past 9 years I’ve had the gall to move some items within the church and really disrupt the delicate balance of someone’s life evidently; let me give you the short list of some of the items – pulpits, flags, stained glass, chairs, etc. You’d have thought I committed the unpardonable sin. If people get bent out of shape over small things just imagine what happens if you try to change something larger like church structure, procedures, musical style, etc.

If you are someone who has a problem with change do me, and yourself, a favor and read or reread “Who Moved My Cheese.”