Reinventing the Church for the Twenty-First Century – Gary Hamel
Date: April 14, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Gary Hamel
Position: Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business School
Topic: “Reinventing the Church for the Twenty-First Century”
Venue: Chan Shun Hall
Attendance: 180
Presentation: In Post-Modernism, the number of agnostics & atheists has quadrupled since 1990 & negative views of Christians are rising. We must reinvent our definition of church to counteract the Law of Entropy by taking 4 actions: overcome denial of the problem; generate more options by innovating & experimenting; question old habits & “imbedded orthodoxy”; & invert the pyramid of bureaucracy holding us hostage to outdated ideas. The church is not an organization but the people of God; they must be committed to redemption, renewal, & reconciliation, not to programs, policies, & positions. Experimentation inside the church has to match experimentation outside it.
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