Don't Like Change? Skip Easter.

I, like every member of our species, likes my routine, my ways of doing things, my comfort zone.  Even those who profess to not like being stuck in a rut, doing the same thing over and over, have that as part of their routine, the order of their daily lives.  And when change is introduced in our lives, more often than we care to admit, we, no matter how open-minded we may profess to be, are not ones who handle it too well, especially when this change is introduced by others.

However, I think I can make a pretty good case that anyone who professes to be a Christian by definition CANNOT be opposed to change, for the work that Christ has done, is doing, and will continue to do, is nothing if it is not change.

Through his birth, Christ showed that a savior can come in the most unusual of circumstances.

Through his life, Christ showed that it is indeed possible to live as ones who are completely and totally submissive to the will of God.

Through his death, Christ showed that victory comes not through strength, but through weakness.

Through his resurrection, Christ showed that things have changed, for death does not have the final say.

Through the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, Christ showed that things have changed, for we are no longer on our own to figure out how to be people of faith by adherence to the law, but instead to experience salvation by responding to extravagant grace.

So, over the next few weeks, as you hear about changes coming to North Cross, your first instinct may be to opposed any changes to what we are doing now.  And that is completely understandable, for none of us does change very well.  It can be scary, the unknown.

However, if we have attitudes that say that we will fundamentally oppose any and all change, no matter what it is, is, I think, bordering on being very dangerous.  After all, if we believe that change is NEVER a good thing, then the question must be asked: Why celebrate Easter?

Grace and Peace, Lamar