The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling~

"If it's broke, fix it"~

There is an expression that has been in common use in my parents generation, and it is; "If it's not broke, don't fix it!"  This saying alludes to the fact that with all the new technology that appeared during and right after World War 2 the old tried and true ways of doing things were giving way from taking the time to learning and doing things the way your parents and grandparents did things, slow, and with great patience, to needing to get it done 'right now', the faster the better. Even if the job, project  or product ended up being  just 'good enough' rather than perfect, that was OK. Faster was better.

The corrollary saying that came after this generation could have been, "If it's broke, don't fix it, just buy a new one"! Manufactured products from both America and from overseas (particularly from Japan) became so cheap that to (say for instance) take your broken toaster to the repair shop and have it fixed, gave way to throwing the old one away and buying a new one. Everyone new the new one was not as good as the old one, but it was so 'cheap' that when it broke you would just do the same thing over again, ad infinitum.

In a spiritual sense we are seeing this same saying applied to the modern Christian church, as carried on from past generations, because NO ONE realized that the belief that salvation as a function of faith through grace was a broken concept that needed fixing. The motto "If it's not broke, don't fix it" is predicated on the belief that salvation is already perfect and needs no alteration to work correctly. The realization that the Pauline concepts of salvation are irreparably broken, and need to be replaced is the first step in finding the salvation found in the 'gospel of the Kingdom', seen only in the words of Jesus, given to His eyewitness disciples.