Why don't we change?

I am at annual conference this week for The Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church. As I experience conference this week I am asking the question again, "Why don't we change?" Not only the church, however that is important, but Christians in general. I was walking into the auditorium alone and noticed my friends were sitting in the same place for the fifth year in a row. The set up of the exhibit hall was pretty much the same as it has been. As the first main session is getting ready to ramp up the organ begins to play, people are scurrying for their same seats and nothing much changes.
Why? Are we really that fond of the same old routine? Are we so predicatable that the familiar is the most exciting risk we are willing to take? I guess the answer for most of our life is yes! So if we admit that this is true what are we to do? God desires for us to allow Him to continue to create in our midst. God desires for us to be moved and nudged to see the new in every moment of our life. This does not mean that God changes, by no means, instead God is ever constant in character as he is ever active in creating. We are to look for the constants of God's character even as God creates new opportunities around us. This is what is truly exciting about being a Christ-follower.
I am challenged to know that 5 years from now church should be different. The character of God in the presence of God should not be different, but the look, feel, and experience of church SHOULD be new. Why is it a staple of the church to continue to practice things just because we always have? I believe it is because we are comfortable with it that way. We too often mistake the familiar for faith. Jesus did not see it this way. Jesus constantly prayed for God's will to be done not his own. If that is the case then if God told Jesus to stand on his head and whistle dixie while facing east that would be worship. Fortunately God did not tell Jesus to do that then and I believe God is not telling us to do that now.
I don't have all the answers and I certainly am not there yet. I do believe that if we continue to do something just because it is familiar we are missing the boat and short-changing God. The God who created an ever changing world did not see worship as a stagnant and familiar event. Worship is the creation of an ever creating God. The character of worship will never change because the character of God never changes. Our experience of God is new every morning and God continues to long for us to seek creative and new ways to express our love for our Lord and Savior.