How comfortable are we with Change?

 

I love autumn. I am an October baby, so each year I love the connection between the changing of seasons and celebrating another year around the sun. This is my first year back in Wales since moving home last November, so, I have been enjoying the transition from summer to autumn. In the States we call this time "Fall", and I like that word too. Autumn is a warm word, but Fall is an expression. The leaves fall from the trees. It can be a time of shedding what we need to in order to prepare us for what God has next. I'm not a new year's resolution kinda guy, I want to move and make decisions as the Spirit leads, not the calendar. However, there is something about autumn that revives me.

I always like to do something significant on my birthday. For example, I started my publishing company on my birthday in 2021, as I have other ventures. This year I did something like that too. It feels right to start my next journey around the sun with establishing something. 

This brings me to the subject of this post—How comfortable are we with change?—Change is not always easy, and if we live lives that are always the same, change becomes even harder. That is why it is important to make regular small changes, so that our "change" muscles are ready to react or respond when the Lord leads, and bigger changes are required.

My heart, and calling, for this Blog is to inspire, inform, and challenge the changes that need to occur to the church in Wales. I weep for what the church has become, and how far She has strayed from what Jesus wants. Granted, I don't fully know what Jesus wants, but I do know that He wants to build His Church. There is a reformation going on, in earnest, and has been for maybe two decades now, where Believers are finally vocalising their disdain and asking, 

"Is that really what the Bible teaches?"

This reformation is one where the Church will reform Her ways of walking out Her committment to Christ. The reformation is also correcting the perverse and warped view most have of the Bible. Old habits die hard, and this willl take time. You are going to have to face these changes sooner or later, or die believing stuff that was never in God's heart.

Since the last Reformation we have anywhere from 9,000 to 250,000 different denominations. That's not a united church. Most, if not all, were founded on what they believed the Bible was saying. It's embarrassing actually. The Eastern Orthodox church have remained unified, almost, for two thousand years, so too have the Catholics, despite certain errors in their teachings. But the ones claiming to elevate the Bible, are all confused and fractured, each claiming that their brand of truth to be THE Truth! 

Someone has to stand up and say, "The Emperor has no clothes!" The "someones" are a collective of people who are taking a risk to step back and examine what they have been taught, and see it all with fresh eyes. This is part of this current reformation. The reformation in the 1600's took approximately 130 years to happen. This current reformation will not happen overnight, it will take time. I want to make sure that I am on the right path to helping the believers of the future to walk in a greater expression of what Jesus called, "Spirit and Truth". It's always the Spirit first, He is the one who leads us into Truth (John 16:13). If you don't have an active relationship with the Holy Spirit, then truth will be what you make it. Just because the Bible "says" doesn't mean the Bible "teaches". There is a BIG difference. The Holy Spirit connects us to the author, not the Book. 

Are you willing to change your beliefs? Are you willing to ask, "Is that really what the Bible teaches?" Are you willing to become like a child again to learn what He wants you to learn? Or, will you die on hills that God never intended His Church to die on? Will you live a life of toeing the line, and regurgitating the narratives of your demonination or church? 

Doctrines will be demolished. Theologies will be thwarted. The church (small "c") will be churned and burned and overthrown. Just like Jesus prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem, the modern day church needs a catastrophic razing of the ecumenical edifices that have been built by the minds of men, and not the Hand of God. I am 100% signed up for that! 

Lord raze the modern-day "church" so that you can raise up Your Church!!    

Mwy Arglwydd...