Handling Risk and Change

Handling Risk and Change

Jim Rohn

We must risk going too far to discover just how

far we can go.

Frank Scully

Why not go out on a limb?Isn’t that where the fruit is?

John A. Shedd

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships

are built for.

Innovators EarlyAdopters

EarlyMajority

LateMajority

Laggards

Enthusiasts

Visionaries

Pragmatists

Conservatives

Skeptics

Pioneering Paul & Patty

Risk-Taking Rick &

Rebecca

Rob & Ruth

Resistant

Hesitant Hank &Harriet

Fall-in Line

Fred & Flo

Risk-Taking Caleb

Numbers 13:30

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”

Joshua 1410 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Joshua 1411 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.

Joshua 1412 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”


Risk-Taking Rick &

Rebecca

Rob & Ruth

Resistant


Fall-in Line

Fred & Flo

PioneeringPaul

Romans 1517 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. 18 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,

Romans 1519 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;

Romans 1520 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,

Romans 1521 but as it is written,“Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”


Risk-Taking Rick &

Rebecca

Rob & Ruth

Resistant


Fall-in Line

Fred & Flo

Peter the Early Adopter

Matthew 14:28

And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”

John 666After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”

John 668Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”


Risk-Taking Rick &

Rebecca

Rob & Ruth

Resistant


Fall-in Line

Fred & Flo

Jesus’ Brothers

Mark 3

21And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”

John 73 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For not even his brothers believed in him.


Risk-Taking Rick &

Rebecca

Rob & Ruth

Resistant


Fall-in Line

Fred & Flo

Lot

Genesis 1915 As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Genesis 1916 But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

NON-ADOPTERS

Sanhedrin

Acts 751You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Acts 752Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Some Hard Questions

Where are you on the Risk

Meter? What is your tolerance

for risk?

Some Hard Questions

Where is GEFC on the Risk

Meter? What is our tolerance

for risk?

Some Hard Questions

Which way are you pushing the

dial?

Some Hard Questions

Which way should we push

the dial if our goal is to grow?

Handling Risk and Change

Spiritual

Handling Risk and Change