I know what you’re thinking…why in the world should I read this blog…I feel that way every time I write a blog (which is why I haven’t written in so long). But as I awoke this morning and logged on to Facebook I noticed that the world was ending. I mean not really, but you would think it from the amount of people belly aching over the fact that a free site changed the way they do things. I’m sure in a couple of hours I will be asked to join the “we want to tell facebook we want our old home page” groups and that if we get 1 million people to join then they will change it back. They aren’t going to change back, and we will grow accustomed to this in the next 2 weeks and find more political junk to whine about.
George Barna once wrote in his book “Boiling Points”,
You can avoid the flu, you can outrun your past, you can ignore your in-laws, you can outsmart your adversaries, and you can deny your imperfections. One thing you cannot get around, however is change. Change will happen whether you are ready or not. Change will happen whether you like it or not. Change is inevitable. America’s national motto may as well be “No change? No chance!”
As an avid golfer I can respect change. The fact is that change happens so fast in technology that if you are playing equipment that is over 3 years old you are losing out in distance and control because the technology around golf is changing so fast. Somebody stop Steve Jobs and see if his bank account profits from change. Hot rumor (the IPhone 5 is coming out in November, and the IPad 3 in January) Apple rules the technological world and they change constantly, so somebody tell Mr. Job he’s an idiot while he counts his millions because of change.
In fact, the only thing we can’t change is church. (you had to know I was going there) Church people complain of change the way a baby cries after he/she has gone boom-boom. In fact while most of the world around us has changed, we still do things the same way. Now, the word of God WILL NEVER CHANGE!! Praise Him. But the way we deliver, approach, and conduct church should. Most of our church services are still ran the same way they were in the 50’s, we reject anything that maybe different than what we know, and we tend to have a “my way or the highway” approach to our thoughts on how church should be done.
Did I miss something or did you have to change when you came to Christ? Yup, you did. Are you still changing now in Christ? Yup, you should be. Will I be changed after I die? Yup, you will be. In fact the only thing that we are assured that doesn’t change is God Himself. So I say embrace change. Embrace change on Facebook, embrace change in church, embrace change in your life, and embrace change that you don’t like. Because without change we don’t move forward, someone go ask Moses how it was to be around people who wouldn’t change!
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