Changing Times
February 9th, 2009Do you remember the story of the young bride who was cooking a roast for her husband? He noticed that she cut the end of the meat off before cooking it and inquired as to why. “That’s how my mother taught me,” she replied. Not satisfied, he went to his new mother-in-law to ask about this cooking technique. She said, “That is the way my mother taught me.” Still not satisfied, he went to his grandmother-in-law to investigate the procedure. The grandmother said, “I cut off the end of the roast because my pan was too short!”
There are numerous traditions that start for good reasons (2 Thessalonians 3:6). We pass them from one generation to the next, often without explanation. When questioned about it we tend to say things like, “That’s just the way we have always done it.” Why do we do the things we do in church? Do we do them because we have book, chapter and verse or because they have been passed down to us?
David had men in his army who were students of the times (1 Chronicles 12:32). Jesus rebuked the religious leaders because they were incapable of discerning the times (Matthew 16:3). What about us? Are we able to see the times in which we live and apply the gospel so that people are drawn to Jesus?
Take a few minutes and think about what we can do as individual disciples and as a church to better reach our world in our time.
Keep The Light Burning!
Perry Greene
