Time For A Change

It's been a week of change in Canada this week. Some are welcoming the new Prime Minister elect with the words, 'well, it was time for a change'. Time will tell, I guess.

Change is one of our world's constants. The world around us seems to change at an almost alarming rate, yet most churches seem to plod along doing the same old same old. Why change something that works, eh?!?!?

This evening our church board is meeting to discuss change. Things cannot stay the way they are, that's for sure. Some difficult decisions have already been discussed and made, but not fully accepted or understood. One old guy was convinced the other week that when I was preaching I said, 'It's time to change our message', when in reality I said, 'It's time to change our methods.' Maybe a better word than change is metamorphosis. We are kind of like the caterpillar in the cocoon at the moment. We don't know what kind of butterfly will emerge. When it does emerge at the centre will be what was there before - the caterpillar. Whatever our church looks like when we emerge from our cocoon, what is at our centre will be the same - God and his gospel message.

None of this will make this evening any easier, but hopefully will act as a good illustration as people fearfully move forward.

Found this interesting link at deeper. Check it out, it's relevant to the above rambling.