When a we are faced with a challenge, we have two choices. We can either go with what we have always been taught, or, we can innovate. The wonderful world of Wikipedia defines innovation like this: “The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.” This means that we either must keep doing things as we have always done or we must come up with something new. Erwin McManus said, “The religiously civilized love tradition; the barbarian spirit loves a challenge.” Now here we are presented with a question… Why on earth would anyone ever want to innovate? Why would you want to come up with a new way of doing the same old things? The answer… a wise man has said multiple times, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got.” That is so true. If we are unhappy with the way our world is being run and the direction that our country is headed, then it is obviously time for some innovation.
How does one begin to innovate? All you simply have to do is encounter the Maker. You simply cannot meet the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE and remain the same (The Barbarian Way). When we meet God, we can not help but be overcome and swept away by his power. God is not calling us to remain true to tradition and keep an old law. He even tells us in Romans 7:6
“But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under the old code of written regulations, but of the Spirit in newness”
Do you know what this means for us?! This is God’s way of saying “CUT LOOSE!” He doesn’t want us to remain on the same beaten path! Yes, He has given us guidelines on how to glorify him(aka The Bible), but He never says , “This is exactly how you should live your life.” This is why I do believe innovation is the key to a radical and uncivilized faith. God said a spirit of newness! This means that once we have encountered Him, we are never to remain the same or follow our old traditions of life. Here is the challenge we have been presented with, be dangerous in your faith. Now, what are you gonna do about it? Will you choose to innovate?
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