Furniture and Change

My office is in an old, old building. It's awesome. I love it. There's a parlor around the corner, and recently, the facilities manager of the building rearranged all the chairs and couches and the piano. All that stuff.
We talked about it, and I guess he was a little nervous that people would not receive the change too warmly. I'm only guessing, but I would assume that the reason people may not like the change is because they were used to the way it was. From looking at it, there was certainly nothing wrong with the new setup.
This got me thinking a little. Furniture is movable. Sometimes it gives the impression of permanence, and sometimes the stuff might be challenging to move around, but it can be done. It's not permanent.
I think sometimes we treat a lot of things we do or have done like it's furniture. We like it, we got used to it, and we think it's permanent. The fact is, sometimes rearranging things can give us a fresh perspective that's incredibly helpful. Sometimes we may even have to get rid of the once beautiful sofa which is now stained and musty. We're still thankful for all the years we got great use out of that couch, but it's time for the couch to go.
It's so easy to fall into this trap of doing things as a church a very particular way. We do it cause it worked, and then maybe at some point, whether or not it still works, we keep on doing it because it makes us feel safe. I'm just as susceptible to this as anyone else. Sometimes there are new, more effective ways of doing things, and sometimes old methods work great. Sometimes that chair that was banished to the attic comes back out decades later to make a stylish reappearance.
I just don't want the value to be that we don't change things. We need to change things.
What if we never switched to the telephone because we really liked the telegraph?