The program you were running starts to glitch. Things aren’t saving correctly; the pages aren’t loading right; the spinning wheel of death taunts you with its unspoken announcement: “I won’t tell you exactly what, but something is definitely wrong!” Do you continue fiddling with the program? Closing and reopening windows with the hope that things magically resolve on their own? Or do you take the drastic step, placing your fingers on those three buttons—Ctrl+Command+Power or (for the P.C. crowd) Ctrl+Alt+Delete? Sometimes our lives and our lives together as a church need a fresh start. Not slight adjustment or a little tinkering, but a full-blown “back-to-the-beginning” re-start. How does something like that happen for a church? What does it even look like? What might your role be in such a profound refresh? Let’s huddle around a message from Jesus to His church in Revelation 2. In this remarkable passage, our Savior urges His people to drop their fiddling, tinkering, excusing, and adjusting and to passionately press Ctrl+Alt+Delete. What if the River Church could experience a thoroughgoing refresh? A single-minded return to the simplicity of our first love?
