Field Guide

Deciding What to Change in Your Church

Help for navigating what to change and what to keep the same to avoid stagnating.

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Illustration by Emily Fernando / Source Images: Søren Jacob Grønvald, Robert Hooke / Artvee

CT Pastors December 16, 2025

Leaders are often in situations of never done that before. Innovation is expected. Keeping things fresh is the difference between thriving and stagnating. It’s usually not difficult to identify things that need changing. It’s far more difficult to identify what should change first.

The articles below focus on the leader’s ongoing role of bringing freshness and energy to the task. That means choosing what to change and what to keep the same (for now). Revelation 21:5 says that he who was seated on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new. When you serve that kind of King, you get used to saying, Never done that before.

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