Digging In The Same Hole!

Fear to make change. Why do we keep digging in the same hole?

"One of the most subversive questions Alan asks you when he is doing church revitalization consultation with a local congregation is this: "If you could start again from scratch, would you do with the same way?"... and the usual answer was "no." If they could start over and begin doing church from scratch, they ususally said they would not do it the way they were currently doing it. For Alan then, it begs the response, "Then, why are you not changing it now?"
If you are digging a hole in one place and you realize you need to dig and elsewhere, you don't get there by digging in the same place, only deeper. And yet churches, when they realize that the old attractional model isn't working, seem to believe that if they just do what attrctional l church better, it will work. And, let's face it, so many of the church growth seminars and conferences or are simply repackaging the traditional attractional mode and promoting it to small, struggling, and dying churches as the only way to grow. There is a whole industry devoted to such conferences in the production of such materials that simply encourage struggling congregations to keep digging the same hole deeper.".

(The shaping of things to come innovation and Mission for the 21st century church by Allan Frost and Alan Hirsch 2003 page 62, 63)