{"id":6647,"date":"2023-11-13T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2023-11-11T18:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T01:41:43","slug":"innovation-stoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6647","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Stoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote yesterday about the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">innovation<\/a> in ministry. But innovation is tough, and marketing Guru Seth Godin explained why in this piece from <a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2023\/10\/three-things-about-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 29, 2023<\/a>. It&#8217;s short and makes only three points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>New approaches will never be embraced by everyone at first. If you need unanimous consent, you\u2019re not going to move forward.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>And it\u2019s not convenient. If it were, someone would have done it already.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Finally, it\u2019s not sure to work.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve seen all those things starting with the objection to a great idea for a Sunday morning: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">That&#8217;s not church!<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a great idea back in the early 2000s to combine volunteer <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ministries with intentional disciple-making<\/a>. It wouldn&#8217;t have been convenient. It would have been difficult, and, at the first sign of difficulty, <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we folded<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it&#8217;s true that innovations are not sure to work, but we try anyway. And what does &#8220;work&#8221; mean? Often in the church context, there&#8217;s the expectation that success requires that we reach everyone. I was in a meeting with a pastor and one of his elders planning a discipleship initiative. The elder said something like, &#8220;Not everyone will want to do that.&#8221; The pastor wisely responded, &#8220;It will never be the case that everyone wants to do something. That&#8217;s no reason not to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let&#8217;s innovate! We don&#8217;t have to keep running the same plays that no longer work. As I wrote <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6622\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>, &#8220;If the horse is dead, dismount!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead&#8230; (Philippians 3.13, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about the need for innovation in ministry. But innovation is tough, and marketing Guru Seth Godin explained why in this piece from October 29, 2023. It&#8217;s short and makes only three points: I&#8217;ve seen all those things starting with the objection to a great idea for a Sunday morning: &#8220;That&#8217;s not church!&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Innovation Stoppers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1Jd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}