Ministry Tools Resource Center is finally blogging!  For some time I have struggled with doing it just because “everybody” is doing it.  I questioned the extra time it would take to maintain it.  After praying about it, I determined it is time to blog because of its value as a communication tool, giving visitors to the site an opportunity to respond.

Today it is blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.  What will it be tomorrow?  Change is inevitable.  And, it is happening at such an increasing rate, it is hard to keep up with it.

All this got me wondering about the church and change.

In his book, Color Outside the Lines: A Revolutionary Approach to Creative Leadership, Howard G. Hendricks wrote:

Has your church outlived its usefulness?  Will it still have something to contribute even five years from now?  Only if it embraces change.  For change is the ocean in which our society swims.  As Charles Handy of London School of Economics has put it, we inhabit an age of discontinuity, a chaotic time in which the rate of change itself is accelerating rapidly.  Is it possible for your church to survive, let alone thrive, amid such chaos?  Absolutely!  But it will require more than “business as usual.”  Above all, it will require creativity –the ability to envision and embrace a new future.

Yet, let’s not change simply for the sake of change.  Let’s pray on it and evaluate it to determine what change is beneficial.  Let’s hold fast to the unchanging truth of God’s Word which is just as relevant for today as it was yesterday.  There still are some absolutes!

What do you think? …. Are we as a church keeping up with the changing world around us?  Are the changes we are making ones that do not compromise Truth?

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