Change and the Mythical "way it has always been"

Tonight was the second evening of the revival, and this brought to mind my earlier comments about the need for doing things differently from "the way it has always been done", and what I realized, is that this mythical "standard" of tradition, doesn't really exist. Sunday School is less than 100 years old, the common use of music in church is less than 200, even pastors that are not bi-vocational is a recent development. The truth is, it's not about doing things by this "standard" of tradition that is most important to people, it is preventing change. In a world where everything changes every day, if not every hour, it is no wonder the church is struggling with relevance when we are hampered by slavish devotion to theologically and morally neutral methods. These methods were developed at a point in time for a specific reason, that have now outlived that time and reason, and must change. They served their time, but they are not relevant to preserving the fabric of our belief system, merely the preservation of our comfort zone. So really, our struggle with relevance is a struggle against living the Christian life the way Christians are supposed to, since I'm pretty sure that there is nothing in the Bible that guarantees Christians any sort of comfort zone. It might be nice to do things the way we grew up doing them, but when it comes to the eternal state of those around us, possibly hampering their response to the Gospel merely for our comfort, I think our comfort-seeking stops being nice and starts being sin.