Really?
What are you implying when you speak those words?
What does it feels like to have these words thrown your way?
I confess the first thing I hear is the slamming of a door. Boom - I'm done!
My gut reaction is to turn and run the other way.
You just as well put a big neon sign in the front of your church signifying:
closed to progress,
closed to the movement of the spirit,
closed to and for life!
Really?
I just cannot imagine God's preferred vision for the kingdom sitting idle because we are fearful of moving in and towards a direction we do not know. These seven words have the potential of paralyzing a congregation with their inability to change.
Change signifies movement.
Change can be very exciting.
I have learned that some folks not only embrace change, but are looking for it in every aspect of life, while others do everything in their power to avoid such movement.
Change is the one and only constant in our lives outside of the abundant unconditional love and grace of God.
Our bodies change, our climate is changing, our minds are changing. . . why not our attitudes?
Imagine for a moment if you will, a life without change. . .
Scary isn't it? Transportation would not exist as we know it, nor would our modes of communication. No television, radio, computer, cell phone . . . hard to allow your minds to go there? It is for me.
The Spirit of God is moving, flowing, rushing like a mighty river. Are we as a church going to plant our feet in the every flowing steam of life because we are afraid of what might lie ahead, staggering to keep our balance or our we going to jump in, flowing with the rushing, changing, current of life?
What direction is God leading you. . .
The folks in the life of your congregation?
In ways that best honor God's kingdom here on earth?
In the community?
Into the world?
Maybe, we will never do it that way again.Maybe, just maybe that is what God is calling us to imagine.
God is calling us:
to movement
to change,
to life!
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