just the rev

the pic is a rather unkind rubber stretchy version of the beautiful jennifer anniston. it got me thinking a bit about the extent of change in church. do we get terribly excited over trivial change and make it out to be something more substancial than it is?In his excellent book a new kind of christian McLaren talks about incrementally changing or innovatively changing. he writes about incremental change being the great enemy of innovation. "innovation means introducing a bold new system...it's a bit like being a travel agent or stockbroker in the age of the Internet: Do you keep improving your services, or do you jump to a new way of doing business entirely? Maybe you do both....." He talks about adding not substracting. But says you "would add new worship and spiritual growth experiences for new people - completely new ways of doing things". HURRAH! (i think!) The new stuff should be for new people but very often in my (recent) experiences it is the hard core of church goers who dictate what can and cannot happen in the new stuff. this is frustrating, disturbing and fundamentally wrong. And on that unhappy note I shall leave you. I won't be back for a while cos I am to have my operation soon and will be off for a few weeks. will get back asap!