One of the greatest failings of the American Church could be summed up in Nancy Sinatra's famous line: "You keep same-in' when you oughta be a-changin'."
We - as individual members of the Body - keep same-in' when we oughta be a-changin'.
Please do not misunderstand - I am not saying the church as a whole needs to change, at least not in the sense of "keeping up with the times".
Far from it.
We need to go back to the Scriptures and we need to go deep. We need to understand that faith without works is dead, that the Spirit brings sanctification, and we are called to become like Christ.
All of these involve big change.
Christianity is not a matter of trying to be nice and going to church at least 3 Sundays out of 4. (That doesn't involve any significant change.)
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2
"Transformed" = BIG change.
The Church is the Body of Christ, right? The Apostle Paul implies that if we stay conformed to this world and our minds are not renewed - if we stay the same - then we end up cut off from God's will.
And if the Body is separated from the Head, that Body is a corpse.
Let's stop "same-in'" when we "oughta be a-changin'".
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