“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
- Arnold Bennett
i know this one is true, first hand. and it’s all the more true in the life of the church, where change often seems to be a very painful experience.
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Ain’t this the truth! But I do wonder – if change is so necessary – at the personal and corporate level – why has God wired the majority of the poulation to struggle with it…? The most common personality types, statistically, are the ones who dislike change!
And at a deeper level why are some things so hard to change in me !
there’s an interesting quote in peter senge’s “the fifth discipline”, in which he says something like, “people don’t fear change so much as being changed…”
i always wonder whether there’s an aspect of the sin nature that tries to live in denial of change, and especially our mortality, so we strive to develop a comfy space in which to ignore the very obvious fact that NOTHING in all the universe is unchanging, other than our God. it’s a thought…