change

This picture is a postcard I got a while ago while I was pastor at a previous congregation I served. It was an advertisement for a book from Spark House. I was not interested in the book, but I was interested enough in the saying to keep the card on my bulletin board.

Change is something we try to avoid, because change is hard even if it is good change. It is hard to do things different, to not do it the same old way.

But the problem with that sometimes leads us to hope things will be different even when we do the same things! Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” If we always do things the way we have, nothing will ever change, no matter how hard we wish it would!

I say all of this, because there are changes happening. Some of them you will notice, and others may go without even causing a ripple. Some of them will affect some of you greatly, and others of you may or may not even see a difference. But if it affects one of us, it affects us all!

And my hope is the changes will affect us all. I hope and pray that we will learn how to talk with each other about our faith. Thus helping us to better understand our faith and better be able to share it in the world around us. I hope and pray we will all be disciples of Jesus, helping each other grow in our faith and deeper in relationship with Jesus.

You see we are all learners and teachers. We are helpers and leaders. We are all a part of the body of Christ and we need each other!

So if something has changed and you need to talk about it, my door is open, please come and have a chat! All of us are in this together and we need everyone to be a part of God’s mission so that we can change the world!

Because the change God has for the world is better than any change it will get from the vending machine!