When you see advertisements for products, what catches attention is if there is something “NEW” about it. People like “new” things, “new” ideas, “new” technology. Even the Athenians in Paul’s day “spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing” (Acts 17:21). So it is in religion, many folks are looking for something “new,” and so many churches feel like they need to offer something “new,” in order to distinguish them from “the other churches” and to appeal to the masses.
Consider for a moment: The Bible was completed almost 2,000 years ago. It is not going to change or to offer something “new.” We must “not add” anything to it, in order to find or make something “new” or “different” (Rev. 22:18). If the truth of the glorious gospel and sound doctrine does not appeal to people, it is not our job to make it appealing. It alone is “compels” (2 Cor. 5:14; 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:1-4) and not us! Let us love, “seek” and teach “the old paths, where the good way is,” and let us not be ashamed to “walk in it” (Jer. 6:16).