We all have Comfort Zones

We have been talking a lot over the past few weeks about moving from 2 Sunday worship services on Sundays to 3. I have to be honest and say that I am excited about this. This change is not based on the hopes that God will do something. This change is in response to what God is already doing. That excites me. To know that God has chosen to work in and around us is a huge blessing.

I also have to be honest about something else. I’m not real excited about the personal changes that I’ll have to make to adjust to the church changes. We all have comfort zones. We all have schedules and experiences that we do not want to do differently. I know that there are people in the church that don’t like the schedule changes. There are some that don’t like that they will have to attend at a different time or be part of a different Link Group or even serve in their ministry at a different time.

I can understand. I’m not crazy about some of the schedule changes it will create for me. It is going to stretch my comfort zone. It’s going to inconvenience me. But I must remember that God’s goal for me and for us is not convenience – it’s commitment. All of us have made comfort such a high priority that we forget that most of the world’s Christians have very different challenges than we do. When we are inconvenienced by changes in service times other believers face being killed for meeting together in the middle of the night.

Sometimes I need to shake myself up to get a proper perspective. Have you been shaken today?