CHANGE

One of the saddest things I have ever heard come out of the mouth of a pastor was this sentence: "People don't change." 

Is it just me? Isn't a part of a pastor's job to encourage change and growth? And even suffer, if necessary, to see it happen?

The Apostle Paul refers to the Galatians as "My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you". (Gal 4:19)

I know Paul couldn't have experienced a 100% success rate in his "labors", but surely it wasn't 0 either.

Maybe change happens, but so slowly it is difficult to track.

(Not that it couldn't and shouldn't happen quickly.)