Torn in Two ...

As a GenX church leader with a foot in two generations of the church I am torn between:
(1) the need to be anchored in the historic Christian faith and to learn from the older and wiser who've gone before
(2) the need to "get out of the box", dismantle the box and use the wood to build something new

I'm calling myself GenX as a convenient label, but I'm really a pilgrim at heart ... my life mission is ... to follow Jesus wherever it leads and whatever it costs ... and in the last 6 years this has taken me on a journey beyond anything I would ever have imagined.

Is anyone else in this position? i.e. you find yourself serving in a very traditional denomination of the church or some organisation, but there's a restless energy inside you that wants to break out and do something fresh and new?

Comments

[l. koons]

i've been in that position & felt the tension there as well. i know what you mean. even so, there's a kind of beauty in the tension. and your description of where you are with it reminds me of a woman in 7th month of pregnancy. i'm eager to see what will be born from you when the time is ripe for change.