The goal posts are constantly moving

I started in youth ministry about 30 years ago when I was a young person in Australia. Then I went to the monastery and have been in the UK pastorally for the past 20 years. I was sent, by Pope Shenouda III, the late head of the Coptic Church, to look after young people here. The observation he made was quite precise, despite the fact he was an 80-year-old man living in Egypt. He said, ‘The problem in the world is not that people are doing the wrong thing, but that they have lost perspective on what the wrong thing is.’