Yesterday the Woodland Hills staff went out and had a great time on our monthly Visionary Day – we ended up spending some time in the bowling alley. We had a lot of fun watching each other attempt to bowl, but the most laughs was easily when we played an entire game with our weaker hand.

If you saw our scores, you would know we didn’t do so great. It was very difficult to get the stepping correct, relearning how to bowl all over again. Mandy and Paul seemed to adapt well and was getting better. I by far did the worse at relearning to bowl.

Unfortunately, this is very similar to the church. Whether we like it or now, the world changes. Culture is ever changing, and not that we change our Truth and Gospel message, the way we present that truth and message needs to change with the culture. And it is sad to see that many churches and ministries look like they are bowling left handed when it comes to our culture. We can get so stuck onto doing things the way we always have, that when something changes, we are unable to adapt. We need to constantly look at our ministries and ask ourselves if we are changing with the culture, or are we stuck into what we always used to do.

May we learn to adapt ourselves to our world around us, and may we be able to bowl left-handed.

Thomas Paukovitz is a Youth Minister at Woodland Hills Christian Church. You can track him down here: http://hodbog.posterous.com