Ham In The Pot

There is a story of a Mother who cut the ends off of her ham every time she cooked it. One day her daughter asked her why she cut the ends of the ham off and her reply was “I don’t know, my Mother always cut the ends off of hers”. So, the daughter went to her grandmother and asked her why she cut the ends off of her ham and her reply was “I don’t know, my Mother always cut the ends off of hers”. Finally, the daughter went to her great-grandmother and asked her why she cut the ends off of her ham and her reply was “baby, back in the day, we didn’t have a pot that was large enough to hold the whole ham, so I had to cut the ends off so the ham would fit in the pot”.

The moral of this story…many of us have been “wasting” good meat in our worship experiences, simply because we figured because it was working, or because it has always been done like that, why do anything different?

Some people don't even know why their church does certain things in their worship...or why their order of service (liturgy) looks a certain way...or why they don't include certain worship expressions (lifting hands, for example) even when it is clearly in the Bible. The only answer they have:

It has always been done this way - why change?