Everything Old is New Again

You see it in trends. Whether in fashion, home decorating or in how a business is organize. What is being done gets replaced by something that was done in the past. And that old way becomes what is newly valued.

A song sung by Peter Allen, from the 1970’s, expresses this:


And don’t throw the past away

You might need it some other rainy day

Dreams can come true again

When everything old is new again

(Written by: Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Woolnough Allen)


In today’s podcast, Verlon Fosner expresses the same idea. We have followed trends in how the church supports its people and reaches out to a lost world. The current method though, has lost the effectiveness it once had. Our model needs to be new again. To do so, Verlon explains how God turned his church back to the method used in the first century, The Dinner Church.

It is not easy to let go of what is familiar to us and where we possibly found our niche, but church studies demonstrate we have to do something different. Our world is one that is built on fast change, and that can be irritating. Let’s not let that though, stop us from changing in the area that is most important. One where our mission call from our Lord is to reach those who are lost. How can we rethink what we are doing, to allow our body of Christ to not be inhibited from touching those it was put here for?