There Is No Simple Answer

I just had a fun conversation with a friend and colleague. We were discussing "The Model", and how at the institution where he teaches, "the model" they are supposed to teach is done, often at the exclusion of all else, and with a sense that it is THE way of doing things in congregations.

It's not.

Far from it.

We look for single, "one-size-fits-all" solutions to problems. Life is full of adaptation. I am wary of those who tell me how to do things, especially those who do not know my context.

There is no model...no simple answer. And when those models begin with the presupposition that because I am not doing "the model", I must be doing it wrong...well...that just annoys me.

Life was not created to be simple. And people of faith, more than everyone, need to recognize that life is full of opportunity to "make good". God did not choose to give us an owner's manual for the world...lprobably mostly because we don't own it...we are tourists on the earth, living lives that are completely dependent on God.

It seems like we should get over ourselves.