another way?

There is always another way of doing things. Too often members in the church get stuck and demand that "things" be done a certain way. It's the old proverbial, "We've always done it this way."

Everytime I read scripture, in particular the New Testatment, I encounter Jesus' push to see and expereince "things" in a different way. How many times has it been said that God through Jesus Christ and with the Holy Spirit turns our world upside down! Notions of strength are revealed in weakness...wealth in poverty...wisdom in foolishness...

The inability to use the gifts of our hearts and minds to turn the "things" in this world upside down have cost the church credibility through the years. We wonder why people leave the church. We wonder why people don't come to the church.

If we aren't allowing God to turn upside down our sin, disfunction, hatred, fear, or anxiety...then we aren't allowing God to ripen wisdom, joy, forgivenness or life.

Surely there is another way.