Wes Ellis

“We are not called to build a better church. We are called to go and tell about the one Who is doing a ‘new thing’” -Kenda Creasy Dean We tend to have two speeds in the church: either abject sluggishness or frenetic hustle. We either do nothing, perhaps out of apathy or paralysis, standing on the sidelines, content to just keep the church lights on. Sometimes it's just that we're bogged down by our own administrative process (I sometimes say that things move "at the speed of church" to explain that something will take a while). Or we panic, thinking we must accomplish everything at once and that the church’s survival depends on us! While the former may be powered by bureaucratic intransigence or traditionalism and the latter may be fueled by anxiety, this whole dualism is a symptom of our capitalist society’s fixation on achievement, growth, and ambition. Everything is our responsibility. So unless we’re basically doing nothing, we’re expected to do everything.