The church that flourishes tends to have a strong positive cultural toolbox.
This toolbox contains their stories, their dreams and their past, present and future pathways.
All things work together for good – but seemingly not for those who are negative or unconcerned – who may have decided that looking ahead shows only the bad of the past and the despair that there will be no change.
Instead, good working is seeing the past as instructive, as able to be adventured through, and able to come to the next day with resilience. God is willing, we need to be obedient.