{"id":1289,"date":"2011-07-23T00:24:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2011-07-23T00:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T06:24:46","slug":"when-idealism-gets-in-the-way-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/archives\/1289","title":{"rendered":"When Idealism Gets In The Way Of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I wrote my last blog post<\/a>, the conclusion I came to in that post has stuck with me. I think I had a little epiphany when I wrote the last two paragraphs:<\/p>\n

I must strive to have enough faith in God to believe that He can work through all sorts of situations and people like me that aren\u2019t ideal.<\/p>\n

Perhaps instead of striving to become a more ideal leader or to make situations more ideal\/biblical\/effective, I should strive more to place my faith and hope squarely in God, believing that He can do great things in very imperfect situations and through very imperfect people like me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t get away from that thought. I strongly desire to see things become ideal in churches. That’s where my passion lies. It’s ideal if everyone in a local church is on-fire for God–I want to see that happen! It’s ideal if the leadership of a church is unified, passionate, and committed to the Gospel–I want to see that happen!<\/p>\n

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, I think that God has put those feelings inside of me. The problem comes when I can’t see a way for God to have His way unless those things are in place. I forget that God merely spoke this world into existence–and that He considered that a full-day’s work. After six days of speaking, He felt the need to take a day off to rest, ha!<\/p>\n

God only has to speak the word, and He has His way. No matter how ideal or depressing a situation is, He squirms His way through and performs a miracle. Whether it is the miracle of life or the miracle of life from the dead, a simple faith in God is all it takes to move mountains. You don’t need this in place or that in place. All you need is God to show up.<\/p>\n

And He promises to show up where 2 or 3 are gathered in His name. Take a look at the stars at night and let them remind you of everything our God can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I wrote my last blog post, the conclusion I came to in that post has stuck with me. I think I had a little epiphany when I wrote the last two paragraphs: I must strive to have enough faith in God to believe that He can work through all sorts of situations and people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-my-world","category-the-church-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}