Choosing To Be Different
Happy New Year!!! So I realize that what Im about to write about probably does not match the exciting greeting but I just really feel like writing about this today. And maybe I will be feeling lame about choices tomorrow but today I am choosing to write this! This is something that has been on my heart for the past month or so. Im tired. Im tired of seeing people go to church because the “lali” is beating, calling the congregation together. Im tired of seeing youths standing around the “lali” or outside the church during the service but are the first ones seated around the “tanoa” after the service. Im tired of seeing the congregation fill up the church halls for tea and cakes, merry making with the very people they hold a grudge against. Im tired of seeing things being done because that's the way its always done – tradition. Im tired of seeing people serve the ‘church’ and not the One who caused the church to come to be. Im t...