Foresight: Embracing Future Change for Bold Transformation
Hindsight brings insight which produces foresight. Strategic foresight professionals tell us the best predictor of the future is the past. In other words, past and present trends will continue unless something causes them to change. Humans are the perfect example: we’ll keep doing what we’ve been doing and we’ll keep getting what we’ve always gotten unless something changes. What causes us to change? It isn’t actually seeing something we want more. Psychologists tell us people change when the pain of change is diminished by the pain of staying the same. Change always feels uncomfortable, even painful. But we’ll do it when it looks preferable to what we’ve been doing…
Hindsight: Backward Glances, Forward Progress
There was a huge, divisive problem among the first century Christians. They were arguing about how to do church. And what it meant to be a Christian. I know. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In Acts 15, gospel author Luke gives us a peek into one of the most momentous meetings of that generation’s followers of The Way (aka Christians before they were called Christians). Paul and Barnabas are sent to Jerusalem to meet with prominent leaders of the early Jesus movement gathered to solve a really serious issue – what to do about Gentiles who wanted to join The Way. Paul and Barnabas’s first instinct is one…
