The glory Days

Remember the Early days, You know when the Booths were still alive? The Salvation Army was still a force for salvation before we sold our soul... For money, respectability, and power?

I have been challenged recently about the dangers of romanticising our past. Author/pastor Mark Driscoll argues in his book "Radical Reformission" that:

"Most Christians and churches prefer the past to the present or the future, because the past is over, while the present and future still require a lot of work. A naive romanticism in each of us desperately wants to believe there was a time after Genesis 2 when the world was a wonderful places to live, when things were better and easier than they are today. This powerful delusion enables us to excuse our laziness and failure to be about reformission because of the difficult days we live in. No wonder denominations and theological traditions continually speak more of days past when their movement began than of the present days that are upon them than of the future days into which they are moving." ~Mark Driscoll~

Our movement doesn't Romanticize our past? <----thinly veiled sarcasm

The Question we should be asking is not, how do we get back to our Glory days? or how do we become the army we once were. But How do we become the fighting force God has raised up for 'such a time as this'? By asking this question we can draw we can draw strength from our past with out getting stuck in it.