A New Age – Part 3

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In an ever changing world, it’s important to remember the things that you’ve gone through, but not so much keep those things with you for all time.  That is, I should remember how far I’ve come, and I should remember the lessons I’ve learned along the way, but I still need to get rid of the baggage that I could collect and make into a garbage dump if I’m not careful.

Simplify.  Edit.  Clarify. Disentangle. Reduce.  Shorten. Streamline.  Release.

This is always a process.  It is rarely easy to let go of things that are bad for you. And it is even more difficult to let go of things that are good for you.  But this is a necessary task over time if we don’t want to be left behind in a world of process, growth, and progress.

When I came to Fellowship church, it was a 20 year old baptist church that had closed down its Christian school two years earlier, and had room after room of garbage piled up in it’s hallways, nooks, and crannys. Not to mention the years of emotional baggage piled up high because of church splits, legalism, and sexual sin.  Now into our 30th year, we’re still simplifying, still reducing, still getting rid of the baggage, so that we can be more effective with our purpose of “leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.”

10 years from now, we’ll still be working on it. 
Hopefully, you and I will be too.

Related posts:

1. A Christmas for the Memory
2. Allow me to introduce you, pt 2
3. A Dream without a Plan