{"id":528,"date":"2019-03-04T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T00:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2019-03-03T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:34:42","slug":"when-things-dont-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"When Things Don’t Go Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[To follow The Ewellogy<\/em><\/strong>, please click on Leave a Comment<\/em><\/strong> above, fill in your name and email, and check the box: Notify me of new posts by email<\/em><\/strong>. If your comment is, “Notify me,” it won’t post publicly. If you don’t start to receive the blog by email right away, please write to me at bob@ewell.com, and I will see that you get on the list.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was disheartened to hear that Navigator ministry colleagues of mine were leaving a church staff position after less than two years. They had been called to help a church become intentionally disciple-making; they sold their long-time residence and moved across the country. Now, less than two years in, the church has decided they really didn\u2019t want their help.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve written before about the challenge of church change<\/a>, but today I want to focus on the personal cost to my friends. In addition to the sheer difficulty of moving the older we get, there\u2019s the issue of \u201cWhy, God?\u201d \u201cWhy bring us all the way across the country to not succeed?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few simple observations which may help us not lose heart when things don\u2019t go quite as we had hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n