Change is one of those really hard things for people to accept. Even if the changes are for the better some want to be able to keep things the same. Thats the way we have always done it, or it has worked that way for years, why change it?, are popular refrains. If we don't adapt, we will lag behind.
We can see it in churches, when they try to change and adapt to youth they run in to tremendous opposition. I recently met a man who told me a church in town was falling a part because they spent too much time on youth. He told me of all the people that left this church because of the music, and he told me those same people were much happier at their new church because the music was what the old folks liked.
The next day I met a man from the church that received all these older minded folks, he was in his sixties. He did not know about this chance conversation I had the previous day. He said to me that they had a big problem in their church because they had no youth, they just had older people with old music. He said if we don't change we wont have a church in 15 years. He is right!! You see there is no benefit to our next generations if we demand to have things our way.
Why do I talk about change? Because we have a family that is going to have their dynamics change greatly. Whenever you bring a new person into a home there will be challenges. There will be changes for the person coming into the home too. People come with different backgrounds and experiences and they need to be able to work through these with love and patience. I am excited for these changes for this family. We need to pray that the transition goes well!
So here is the question: Are we so stuck in our ways that we are not open to doing God's work in new ways? We don't have to change the gospel message, we do need to change the way we deliver the message! If we don't, we will lose the next generation.
Thoughts...
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