reversing the trend

Most folk will choose the escalator rather than the steps if given the choice.

It maybe makes sense. Why waste your energy, when the machine will do it for you? But maybe, too, it's a measure of the way we've grown so lazy.

Our 'get-up-and-go' has often almost gone. I heard someone on the radio today arguing that since the Thatcher era it's harder and harder these days to get any volunteers.

Maybe it's 'human nature', this regular gravitation to a life of indolence and ease, where we look to have things done for us instead of getting up and out there to be doing things for ourselves.

It subtly creeps into the life of the church as well.

Where is the sort of commitment of a former generation which sees folk ready to give their lives, year after year after year, to serve the Lord in hard and tough locations where there's maybe little fruit to see?

Where is the sort of commitment of a former generation which sees folk ready to sacrifice a lucrative career and offer up their lives to Christ in serving for a pittance in some place?

Where is the sort of commitment of a former generation which sees folk ready to give of their time and their strength in costly spheres of ministry?

Where is the sort of commitment of a former generation which sees folk ready to take on tasks and undertake responsibilities for long and arduous years?

Where is the sort of commitment of a former generation which sees folk ready to fight the good fight right to the bitter end, to run the good race right on through to the finishing post, and to keep the faith in the face of a hostile world?

I'm generalising, I know.

But we've become too much an escalator generation. We've chosen the path of the moving stairs, instead of the climb up the steps.

The trend can be reversed!

I came across this little Youtube clip today (see below) which hints at how such a change can come about.

A group of engineers took up the challenge and found a way to prompt an 'escalator people' to choose instead the life of climbing up the stairs. It can be done!

Think outside the box a bit! Be a bit creative! See the possibilities there are when we start to show there really is a better, far more interesting way to live.

Our 'escalator lifestyle' trend has got to be reversed. Here's how! Click on the picture below