Twenty-fourth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations

Abstract

Faith, representations of faith, and positive communication are invisible drivers that determine the livability of the Church as an institution, with its primary function to serve as a knowledge economy that promotes wellbeing and a just society. The church’s social capital emerges within the lives of individual knowledge makers or insiders based on the way individuals or groups are depicted or represented in various forms of communication, media, or culture within the institutional structure and outside of it. For outsiders, the institution of the church disseminates the exchange of its knowledge economy through the form of ideas and emotions through language, symbols, signs, gestures, or other modes of expression. It is only until words and symbols have a clear, inclusive, and affirmative meaning across different cultures that we can create a new culture where well-being can occur for all. The Church as an institution has long been viewed as a center for spiritual knowledge and social interaction, where individuals of different backgrounds and beliefs come together to share their faith and traditions, resulting in a healthy social capital that can be used within the context of the church setting and in the larger society. We consider how experiences within the church setting have the power to influence the world in such a capacity that its social capital can change the world.