Cocoons
Cocoons feel safe. A caterpillar wrapped up in one is protected from the outside world so that it can go through a changing process. The danger of our man-made cocoons is that we so often hide in them without any intention of coming out different.
One of the things I’ve noticed recently is that many of us are in cocoons of a sort. We are removed from the world-changing things God is doing. He is definitely doing a new thing in new ways with new kinds of people to reach different groups of people with the same old gospel. The gospel, however, is often packaged in new words with fresh images delivered through creative expressions unfamiliar to the past motifs of traditional evangelicalism.
God really works through people and ministries that worship and serve Him through imagination rather than primarily memory. As I have observed, even in this past week, the ministries that are rocking their world with effective gospel impact are usually those that are doing things with creativity, freshness, new ideas, risky actions, bold endeavors, and powerful teaching of the Word. But, if we’re in cocoons, we have little idea of what’s really happening “out there”. We can miss the new things that God is doing in new ways!
So–if you are unaware (and you probably don’t know if you are), it is important that you break out of your cocoon soon. Let God do a new thing in you so that you will be changed as you re-enter the exciting world of opportunity that God lays before us.
And He says, “Go and make disciples.” And do whatever it takes to get it done…
