Change for the First Time, Again: A Story of Change and How Change is Our Story
Ebook
Change is everywhere in life. God seems to have designed it that way. Whether beautiful or painful, life altering or small, our pages are written with a story of change. If change is everywhere, we are encountering new realities all the time. From our first conversation with a person, to our first kiss, to a new job, to our first experience with loss, newness is all around. When encountering change, we can be hesitant to embrace it, even outright resist it. It's either scary, or hard, or too much, or not as much as we desired, or possibly a combination of these. Because change is constant, it can seem as if we are walking through the same scenarios again and again. We have felt these feelings before, had these conversations before, and walked through these situations before--these painful moments seem to never fade. Even as we journey through the same situation for a second or third or tenth time, it calls for something new, for our story of change to continue in God. Change For the First Time, Again shares the life journey of the author while offering reflections on how to walk through change.
"In a world filled with fakes and facades, here is a story told
with honesty and authenticity. In Change for The First
Time, Again, Scott Lencke opens his heart and lets readers peer
inside. Read it and be moved."
--Jonathan Merritt, author of Jesus is Better Than You
Imagined
"The difference between a conservative and a radical is not the
difference between resistance to changing and embrace of change,
but rather how organic the changes are. Scott Lencke's memoir of
his already quite adventurous life is the story of a man and woman
discovering organic connections between where God had led them and
where God was about to lead them. Anyone facing a change of
life--from the common to the extraordinary--will benefit from this
wise set of reflections on organic changes in life that keep one's
mission in focus."
--Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament,
Northern Seminary
"I believe this will be the strength of this book--to help others
let true stories and thoughts of change arise and be considered. To
let the meaning behind relationships be developed more fluidly. To
give space to the edges of experience and grow from them." (from
the foreword)
--Ken Steorts, President, Visible Music College
Product Details
- Title : Change for the First Time, Again: A Story of Change and How Change is Our Story
- Authors:
- Lencke, Scott
- Steorts, Ken
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9781498229340
Scott Lencke serves on staff at Visible Music College, a music and ministry college with campuses in Memphis, Chicago, and Dallas. He regularly blogs about life, theology, church, and mission at prodigalthought.net. You can also join the story of change community at storyofchange.net.