As our community grows, the rising generation will face different challenges than their fathers. The fathers and grandfathers among us faced the challenge of having no examples at all, no resources at all. They made bricks without straw. Not because Pharaoh was keeping the straw from them. But because there simply wasn’t any straw around. Men and women stood in this wilderness, trusted God for streams, and streams have come. The rising generation has the challenge of trusting God for these streams to feed a new Christendom.

Temptations are legion. But I will isolate one. The temptation is to trust the system rather than the right hand of Jehovah. The advantage had by the fathers and grandfathers is that, back in their day, when there were no buildings or curricula, they knew it was going to have to be a miracle. (We can look at them and say, “Easy for you to trust God, you didn’t have anything else to trust”). But now it would be easy enough to trust the plan and then shake your fist at it when it fails you. The way forward is to trust God and use means but never trust means and use God. Proverbs 22:29 proves true whether your problem is no system or a flawed one, “see a man diligent in his labor, he will stand before kings he will not stand before mean men.”