I love new ideas.
I can’t imagine anything better than building something brand-spanking-new composed of fresh, original notions. Built from scratch, all original ingredients, hand-designed from the ground up.
Reflecting yesterday on lessons from MLK Day, I realized my ideal might not be the way things actually work. Of course we need new ideas, new relationships, new perspectives. But new isn’t enough.
“When we walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the state troopers wanted law and order. We wanted justice.”
The speaker helped me understand–for civil rights to advance, an old idea had to die, the idea that “Law and Order equals Justice.”
Lots of fresh, new thoughts and ideas go into forming and expanding the FREEDOM TOUR community, but new isn’t enough. We have to kill many stubborn old notions as well.
An old, bald crippled guy can’t crank a handcycle 1500 miles.
People won’t support a crazy idea like this.
We’re powerless to make a difference in the face of global human trafficking.
Jesus said we shouldn’t store new wine in old wineskins. New learning requires us to toss out some crusty, inflexible old containers. I know Jesus was talking about the old law, but it’s a similar principle.
We must kill off old assumptions and ways of thinking to make room for new ones.
Many people look at something like the FREEDOM TOUR and immediately think, “I could never do that.”
In most cases, it’s a lie, a false statement that must die before that person can follow a God-sized dream.
Makes me wonder–how many of these crusty, useless old ideas am I still clinging to?
How about you? What stubborn old lies need to die so you can follow YOUR dream?