The Good Old Days

I was in church yesterday - in the congregation - and we were reflecting on standards and values - and how we always think things were better 'in the good old days'. Things aren't what they used to be. Well, of course, it is true that things aren't what they used to be, and that can be good or bad. The trick is to ensure that we turn things to the good. In today's church it is often tempting to look back - and to think that things have gone downhill a long way. Things are certainly different, but we shouldn't see that as worse or, for that matter, better. What we need to do is to get on with being today's church. It's like that thing of saying that children are tomorrow's church, which moved to saying that children are today's church. Actually, neither are true and both are true. Children are PART of today's church, as we all are - so let's get on with the tasks in which that involves us!