What Loss are We Really Resisting?
May 01, 2025Adaptive leadership helps us understand that people don't actually resist change, they resist loss, and the fear of what will be lost.
The fears most commonly given as examples are fear of safety and stability of the status quo, fear of losing a job or the perks that the status quo provides, and fear of having to learn new ways of being and behaving.
But is that what people in the church are really afraid of?
Here, Clara King talks about another kind of fear: fear of how people will behave when we enter a period of disequilibrium, and the fear of what harm that bad behaviour will cause.
- Find out how you can find hope in the face of this particularly difficult challenge.
- Do you have people in your church whose behaviour is unpredictable (or predictably bad)?
- Does the fear of what they might do hold you back from leading change?
- How wide-spread is this problem, in your experience?
