A chance not to be missed...

Historically, every 500 years the world changes.  The reformation, the printing press, the industrial revolution all occurred in one of these 500-year cycles.  Now we sit on the cusp of yet another world revolution – and the question I ask myself is; “What place will the Christian faith have in this new world?”  “Will it survive?”

The answer I believe is, yes!  Emphatically, yes.  But to survive the church will have to do what it has always done and that is to change, adapt, and reorient.  But change is never comfortable and always experienced as loss.

This is our chance to be the next Charles Wesley, John Luther, St. Francis or Augustine.  We can be the great change agents in our churches if we are willing to follow God’s lead and go where few others have gone before.

Can we change without loosing our tradition and our history?  What do we need to survive?  In what ways do we need to change to be relevant to the future world?  What do we have to offer the community around us?