More of What We Know 1

What do we do when we don’t know what to do? We do more of what we have been doing.

Such is not the way of wise Kingdom stewards.

To do more of what we know is safe. It is comfortable. It fits with our longstanding systems, organizations, strategies, and traditions.

Declining baptisms, membership issues, giving down, less going to mission agencies, seminary enrollment challenges, lostness continues, unengaged-unreached remain.

We do more and more of what we know, expecting change, hoping the challenges will be overcome, expecting something new.

We believe what we have done to get us to where we are is sufficient to carry us to new vistas. We forget that to get to where we are required systemic shifts somewhere, sometime ago made by a previous generation.

The hard decisions of that generation created our comfort zone for today.

More of what we know is not sufficient for the next level. Creating a new veneer is not sufficient. Rearranging the deck chairs will buy a little time–but we’ve already tried most of the possible chair formations. Such is not the way of wise Kingdom stewards.

More of what we know is only sufficient for a season. And that season has passed.