How we go about the process of change, however, has a significant bearing on the desired outcome. Unfortunately, there are some basic considerations that are often overlooked in the change process. Click here to download the presentation. Context Context is simply the setting, local and global, in which the congregation finds itself and to which it responds. Then its mission should embrace the young professional couples either married or living common-law who are the typical residents living there.
Context applies inside as well as outside the church walls.
A church's calling and mission are contingent upon the gifts, talents and passions contained in the local body of believers. The change process requires asking hard questions. Identity Identity is often overlooked when change is considered. Identity is the set of beliefs, values, patterns, symbols, stories and style that make a congregation distinctively itself. Identity may be likened to the submerged bulk of an iceberg.