NEW OR FEW

Archaic.

Nearly every church I know battles a choking power called traditionalism.  Some congregations make the adjustments; but more fight for the-way-we've-always-done-it air 'til their dying breath.  For these there is always that many are called but few are chosen passage coupled with the song God Bless the Narrow Way.

Some authors have been devoted to writing against change in the church and change agents.  Shame on them.

God is the Lord of an eternal system which includes a great amount of perpetual new.  He created creation and then calls all to become a new creation.

Archaic habit is not faithfulness.  It is a death trap held tightly in the grip of comfort of any generation.....including mine. Those who want change today will not want it tomorrow.  A new generation, therefore, will have to take up the same battle each has encountered along the way.

Honestly, I like how church is now.  Yet, as one turning 65 I must evaluate whether I am new day by day or stuck.  Stuck isn't good. 

New doesn't imply skirting the Word.  It means the opposite; continually maturing in it.  New is not a three letter word from Satan.  Rather it is a great hope for all generations.

Archaicism isn't a mark of "still being faithful", my friend.  It is a mark of rigidity and unopenness to His Holy Word.  New or few....stuck in tradition is not a sign of faithfulness.