Two and a half weeks have passed since you last heard from me, and for good cause. A semi-cross country move, a new place of service, a new home, changes in the family. I even had to change banks. So busy is not quite enough of a word to capture. But it is OK.
Because although life has surely taken turn, I find it to be a turn for the better. I am so stoked about this community, about the potential here, about the new friendships, about the dynamic opportunity that lies before.
Change is hard, change always brings stress and uncertainty. But change is necessary. If we never change, we never grow. If we never face new circumstances, we will simply remain the same old thing that we have always been.
Why do folks hang new curtains in a house, even when the old ones are fine?
Why do we buy a new car or take a new job, even when the old are satisfactory?
We need the change.
The change does us good.
As we translate that line of logic to the church, why then does the crowd balk? Why does change and progress and new circumstances in the church cause crisis, fear, and resentment?
Seems kind of silly to me.
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