Wouldn’t it make more sense to lead reform of the institution from within?
I can see a few advantages that institutional involvement seems to have: • faster • easier access to many people Working within an institution seems like it would yield results faster. Consider that I could introduce new ideas as a fellow member of the institution. I would have the implicit credibility that is generally given to other members of the institution, especially leaders. However, if I was outside the institution, the only way I could have the ears of the members would be to spend a great deal of time with them building rapport and trust. My institutionally derived credibility would give me a great head start in teaching people what discipleship was all about. The phrase “institutionally derived credibility” may be unfamiliar, but I think the description of this idea will ring true. I will explain by way of a few examples. Consider when a professional preacher is hired and brought onto the staff of an existing institution, he generally commences preaching before getting to kn
