Top 3 Ways to Avoid Resurrection

by | Apr 16, 2014

Resurrection is the promise of Easter.   The only trouble is no death, no new life!  I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that new life is what I crave!
So this Holy Week, I thought I’d share with you the top 3 ways to avoid resurrection:

1.  Refusal to let the old die out
I have seen too many ministries propped up or emotionally subsidized because they used to be successful.  Or because they were someone’s pet project.  Yet the current results or enthusiasm no longer warrant the resources to keep them going. They suck time, money and energy out of a church that might otherwise be used more effectively.

Here’s the trick:  get comfortable with emptiness until something new surfaces.

2.  Refusal to change
We’ll experience 20,000 years worth of change in this century alone.  That means the church has to become more agile at embracing change simply to connect with our communities. Don’t mistake “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” with God or faith being static.  Instead consider that Jesus is the ultimate expression of God’s ingenuity and creativity!

Go ahead put up a screen, get a Facebook account, create online giving options, and mentor the next generation into leadership!

3.  Refusal to be uncertain    
Jesus faced an unknown future.  Would God let the cup of suffering pass or not?  It took faith not to know. There’s lots of stuff we don’t know now…and can’t know. We’ll never know unless we trust God and life enough to take uncertain steps.

Give up having to be certain.  Step out in faith!   Try something you’re pretty sure might fail…just to see!  Have an adventure.  Build your faith muscle.
“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

If you want to talk about how to embrace  resurrection instead of avoid it, shoot me an email (rebekah@rebekahsimonpeter.com)!
Here’s to new life!
Rebekah

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