A few months ago I was a newspaper columnist. Now I am an online columnist. Things change over time. As a pastor I am fully aware of the push and pull between traditional and progressive.
I am constantly being made aware of things that have been common practice in the church, things that many Christians would consider to be sacred or non-negotiable, that are now in question. And clearly there are times when I recognize my job as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to defend what God has declared. But there are times when there is room between what God has declared and what the church has adopted over time as its practice.
