Suffering and Success

My friend, John Schroeder continues to write an interesting series on this topic. The linked post deals with suffering, success, and the Church itself.

Imagine a church where you spend as much time examining where you are weak as you do proclaiming what you are going to build. That's a church that will endure self-inflicted suffering. That's a church that will place itself squarely in the hands of the Almighty relying not on the wisdom of the foolish. That's a church that will succeed in ways we cannot begin to imagine.

Read the whole thing.