I belong to a club.
That club to others can look a little weird or maybe even classed as a sickness?
It seems we are always changing things, looking for elusive perfection, endless tweaking and upgrading. I am like thousands around the world who keep upgrading and changing our guitar effects pedals. And we never seem to be totally happy with what we have or what it can do. Someone always comes up with a new variation and we think we just have to upgrade!

In my faith in Jesus we can be a little like that can't we?
Always hanging out for the latest and greatest worship song or teaching.
We clamber for new styles of expression.
If a new way of doing things appears somewhere in the world we tend to throw away what we had for this hopefully helpful upgrade...

Now that is not all bad...
But I also wonder whether we tend to move on too much and far too quickly?
That is why I am challenging my Church to think more in the line of building and discipleship as opposed to what we can consume and glean for a time.
To look at what is taught as something to build one brick at a time into our lives.
To not be in too much of a hurry to move away from one thing to the next.
That we all need times of selah, meditation, reflection and ultimate long term implementation.

That is what has been so radical about our recent teaching series called Radical.
It is not a few weeks of quick fire encouragement. It is more like the challenge or experiment of what doing certain things for a year or more, could do in our lives.

Can I please encourage you to look at what you have or learn or experience a little different?
See them as building blocks and not chocolate blocks...
Take a longer term view of life.
Build and structure and build even more of Christ into your being.
I think that will do more to help us than craving newness and Church perfection...

Something to think about...