Today the staff started a new devotional book entitled:  "A Renegades Guide to Christianity" written by one of my favorite author's and pastor's, David Foster.  Here's a great post from the mind of David Foster.

Someone has said the only person who welcomes a change is a baby. That statement was obviously made by someone who’s never changed a diaper. No one that I know of likes real, substantial change; the kind of change that leads to transition where people lose their jobs and sell their homes and life begins anew. Change is inevitable. Resist it at your own peril. Here are seven reasons why resistance to change is futile.

1. Living things grow. That’s their nature. They don’t stay the same. You’re not the way you were ten years ago, twenty years ago. You’ll not be who you are now, a year from now. You’ll either be better or worse. But you’ll not be the same.

2. Growing things change. Change is a sign of growth. Healthy change is a sign of maturation. Negative change is a sign of disease.

3. Change creates friction. Any change, even a good one, creates friction, because we like where we are, where we’re going, what we’re committed to, who we know, how we relate. Change necessitates those things stopping or being pulled up and redirected. And any time you change direction there is friction.

4. Friction creates resistance. Whether it’s in your family, your church, your business; any organization where change and growth is happening and friction is being felt, people are going to resist, particularly in systems where people have job titles that bespeak their importance and significance. Those places of power and control are not easily given up.

5. Resistance creates drag. Have you ever heard someone say they were drug into the 21st Century kicking and screaming? A lot of people are this way. They’re drug along through the process of change and growth. Which are you? Are you an earlier adopter, a late adopter? Or are you a part of that fussy group at the end who’s always against change no matter what it is?

6. Drag creates inertia. If friction, resistance, and drag go on long enough, things stop. We create inertia. And the moment we stop growing, we start dying. That’s true in a family, group, or organization. So ask yourself, are you growing, stagnant, and in decline? Are you simply stuck where you are? Anything less than growing is dying.

7. Inertia begs for change. That turns into the slow process of death, unless someone with courage logs in a great dose of the right amount of change, where things begin to grow again and dead things get resurrected.

So you can see that it is futile to resist change. It’s always to your advantage to embrace the kind of change that promises growth and maturation of your life, of your business, and of your relationships.