I once accepted a position in a company to develop a marketing plan for a new product. The product looked not only cool, but also to fill a customer need. I knew the market and the technology.
I developed and executed a plan based on a model that I thought was current and best.
The market had changed a little within two years. It no longer conformed with my model.
We blame the world for not fitting into our model.
I could have blamed the world for changing. But I knew that I had not adapted. There were other problems, such as updating the product to ever changing technologies. The end result was we closed the company within 18 months.
This is not a metaphor for changing your mind—which is something we always must consider.
This metaphor is about blame.
Perhaps we have a model in our head about the ideal church or the ideal organization or the ideal theology. Then we discover that the world does not work that way.
Whom do we blame?
Do we blame the world for not bending to our will and then go off to pout?
Do we accept blame and work on ourselves to adapt to reality?
Faith Venture 
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