Why Do I Have to Change

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Why Do I Have to Change?
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We All Change!
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Drivers of Change Today

• Global Market
• Information
• World Events
• Mobility
• Legislation
• Work
• Technology
• Accessibility, Choices, Decisions

• There has been more change from 1900 to
  present than all recorded history prior to 1900.
• - Dr. Richard Swenson M.D.
• The Overload Syndrome

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Tale of Two Curves

• S Curve Paradigm

• J Curve of Change

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What have you used in the last year?
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Impact of Change

• Overload
• living beyond the threshold of our limits
• Marginlessness
• the space between our load our limits
• Stress/Resilience
• our adaptation to change

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C-H-A-N-G-E Responses

• We are Natural

• There is a Time to

• Embracers
• Cautious Acceptors
• Resistors

• Fight
• Flee
• Flow

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Resistance

• Reasons We Resist

• Favorite Forms of Resistance

• Fearful, uncomfortable
• Its not my issue or problem
• Wasnt my decision or idea
• Dislike the changer or means
• Lack of direction or goals
• Always been done this way
• Doesnt fit values or preferences
• Dont know how to change

• Procrastination
• Diversion
• Irritation, frustration, anger
• Confusion
• Criticism
• Denial
• Malicious compliance
• Silence

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Gods Immutability

• Malachi 36 I the Lord do not change.
• Daniel 221 It is He who changes the times
  epochs
• Numbers 2319 God is not a man
• James 117 there is no variation or shifting
  shadow
• Hebrews 138 is the same yesterday, today and
  forever.
• God does not have limits and does not change!

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God Does Not ChangeBut We Do!

• 2 Corinthians 517 we are a new creation
• Romans 122 we are to be transformed by the
  renewing of our minds
• Ephesians 415-24 we are to grow up, lay aside
  our old selves, be renewed in the spirit of our
  mind, put on the new self
• 1 Corinthians 1551-52 we shall all be changed

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Jonahs Fight Flight

• 12 Arise, go to Nineveh
• 13 17 Rose up to Tarshish swallowed by
  great fish
• 21-10 Prays from the belly of the fish is
  deposited on dry land
• 32-3 Arise, go to Nineveh so Jonah rose
  went to Ninevah
• 310 God relented

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Jonahs Response

• 41 But it greatly displeased Jonah, and he
  became angry (Lit., hot)
• 42 Please Lord, is this not what I said
  while I was still in my own country? Therefore,
  in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish,
  for I knew that you are a gracious
  compassionate God, slow to anger abundant in
  lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning
  calamity.

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Marys Response Luke 1

• v. 29 But she was greatly troubled kept
  pondering
• v. 34 How can this be
• v. 38 Behold the bondslave of the Lord be it
  done to me according to your word
• v. 46-55 My soul exalts the Lord, and my
  spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has

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Our Response

• Recognize our most natural response to change
  (Embracer, Cautious Acceptor, Resistor).
• Ask for wisdom to know when to fight, flee flow
  with change and then do it!
• Rely and rest in Gods unchanging character but
  remember we cannot become what He wants us to be
  by remaining what we are.

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