What do you do as an overseer when production decreases as a result of low moral, high demand, low resources, low personal time and uncomfortable conditions?
Being on the mission field, this is something I see come up all the time. It follows the romantic phase. People grow static and used to things being the way they’ve been. In short, it’s settling for the status quo.
I love how Ronald Regan put it: “Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re
in’.”
It’d be nice to be proactive in change and never arrive at that mess in the first place, but it is so easy to do! The status quo sneaks up on you and before you know it, you’re up to your knees in a mess and struggling just to walk. Then it’s about individual survival, not corporate life.
But how does a group regain this sense of thriving life once they’ve succumbed to the status quo?
It takes a heretic. Someone who steps up against what’s been happening and begins pointing to something greater than themselves. He’ll be criticized for sure, but someone will follow. And then a few will fall in behind that guy. And before you know it, you’ve got a movement.
Here’s a 3 minute video to illustrate.
