Emphasis Preaching Journal
I am a planner at...
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I am a planner at heart, but just lately I have realized that there are times when you can over plan. When my congregation needed to build an education building, we found ourselves immersed in statistics and demographics, surveys and polls, plans and consultations. Some said "yes" and some said "no," some said "this is the time," and others said "we had best wait." With all our planning, calculating and strategizing we seemed to be going round and round and getting nowhere.