"Our efforts are often wasted on behaviors that make us feel good but do not produce the results we are seeking."Hmmmm... how many things do we do because they make us feel good but don't produce the results that we are seeking? How many "sacred cows" do we have that do not produce fruit but we still have the event or fund-raiser or whatever it is becuase we've always done it?
The scripture that came to my mind is one of my favorites; Isaiah 43:18-19, "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?" So I wonder how many times we stifle God's Spirit by clinging to the familiar and refusing to try something new. The annual Fish Fry may make us feel good but are the results what we are truly seeking?
The United Methodist Chruch claims the the priority of making disciples of Jesus Christ. Perhaps we should look at all of our behaviors and efforts in the light of that goal. How will what we are doing or about to do help to make disciples of Jesus Christ? What might happen in our congregations and our lives if we allowed God to do "a new thing"?
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