Evolve or go Kodak

Generations grew up referring to “Kodak moments” as photo moments to capture on film. Today, many young people do not know Kodak. In 2012, it filed for bankruptcy. Kodak was disrupted. Kodak lost its purpose. It did not see the changes happening all around which fundamentally changed what it meant to capture moments—people were shifting from film to digital photography.

I fear many churches in Singapore will go down the same path as Kodak. I wonder whether church leaders are fully cognizant of the fundamental changes in the horizon. When these changes come around, they will hit hard. And who will suffer but the remnant, including the young future leaders of the Church?

Evolution is necessary. Not that we fear the death of the Church, for that wouldn’t happen because God will not permit it. But we should fear becoming a Church that has forgotten her first love and her first works, and become lukewarm and be spit out of Jesus’s mouth.

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