"He who sets his hand to the plow..."
Straight talk: Finding a healthy balance – FORWARD IN CHRIST What it boils down to is balancing trusting God’s power, promises, and ability to do “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20), while not putting him to the test, expecting blessings we have not historically seen, and being poor stewards of our God-given resources. The 100 in 10 program is not quite as ambitious as it appears to be, given on average we planted about five churches a year prior to the program. And the churches the 100 in 10 program have been planting are, to be frank, not very Lutheran in appearance - by and large strip mall churches with contemporary worship and the like - as promoted in various WELS Connections. It's probably less putting God to the test (Malachi 3:10) and more straying from fidelity to the faith our fathers have handed down to us by not instilling in our young men the desire for the excellent task (1 Timothy 3:1) and by building "Neighborhood Walmart's...