God’s Extraordinarily Good Design

“Too often  we find ourselves starstruck,” writes Beth Dunlop in the Winter 2015 edition of Modern.

She says that we’re too often “seeking out the elusive — the rarest design, the most famous architect or (dare I say it) the most expensive object— when in fact there’s extraordinarily good design close at hand.”

And too often we learn this too late.

Worse, too often we do this in our lives of faith. We go in search of the latest faith fad, and we miss what God’s already doing “close at hand.”

Perhaps worst of all is the end result, as we leave one church and join another.  And then another.  As each one fails in turn to meet our every expectation and whim, we drift towards being part of one of the fastest growing segments of our society: the Dones.  The Dones are simply done with church.

Don’t be done.  Notice what God’s doing “close at hand” and ride that wave.

God’s own “extraordinary good design” is indeed “close at hand.”

You’re an example of that!