Change is Inevitable
If you try to stay the same when the whole world is changing around you, then you have changed. Your context is now different and therefore your relationship with the world for good or ill has changed. We may have become more out of touch or more relevant but we haven’t stayed the same.
Our Archbishop, Peter Jensen at Synod and our new Bishop of Wollongong, Rev. Al Stewart, have both encouraged us to be proactive in change.
They are not advocating a change to our message, rather they want us to stand up for historic Christianity and the truth of the Bible as intently as ever before. What they encourage us to do is to engage with our community and change whatever methods are getting in the way of people getting to know Jesus.
Australian Society has changed but the people still need to know Jesus.
Stephen Semenchuk