persevering. Our preference is to always live in the kairos times of fresh and strategic opportunities. It is important to realize, however, that our actions and attitudes in the chronos times are what determine whether or not God can shift us into the kairos times. It is in the chronos times that the necessary ingredients are added. The old and the new are inseparably linked—different but related. The new doesn’t come in spite of the old; it comes because of what we did during the old. Understanding