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What is the guarantee?

There is no guarantee that your congregation will successfully redevelop by completing the skill sets suggested by this tutorial.

Less than 25 percent of all congregations successfully redevelop once they are more than 25 to 30 years old. So, why seek to redevelop?

However, up to 50 percent of all congregations redevelop who intentionally seek to make significant changes and do so with accountability to partner congregations or to an outside third party.

Often congregations really do not want to transform:

• They want to be fixed, to have less pain, or to restore past glory.
  
  
• They do not want to change, but they are afraid of dying.
  
  
• Persons with positions of leadership in the congregation do not want to risk losing those positions by giving permission for change.
  
  
• None of these desires is likely to allow the congregation to be open to the new, future-oriented things that God might be doing in their midst.

Congregations who successfully redevelop are able to do so because there urgently feel that their congregation has a strong spiritual and strategic future, and they are willing to work over time on a solution-based approach that will enable them to experience transformation and achieve their full potential.