Change is Hard, Change is Good

Over the last two years there have been a lot of changes in my life. First there were all the things that you don't learn in seminary about being a pastor. Then there were the many things that have changed at Franconia Baptist Church. Finally there was the really important changes, the deep down Holy Spirit changes that have been transforming my spiritual life.

One thing that I can tell you from personal experience is that most people do not like change. I can certainly understand and even appreciate that. Changes makes us uncomfortable. It challenges our sense of security.

That makes it doubly hard when I tell people that change is both inevitable and required from the Christian life. The Bible tells us that we are not to "be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." (Romans 12:2)

These words alert us that for the transformed Christian life, change is coming. This is a different kind of change though. It comes from the power of the Gospel administered by the Holy Spirit and it is something that we should want very much. So even though change is hard, Gospel-driven heart change is very good.