How we use God

I think sometimes we say "let God handle it", "let God take control" or "let God move His hand" and other similar sayings too causally. Some even use the such phrases to say "let's God do all the work, I will sit here and do nothing." Some simply misinterpret these popular sayings as an excuse of idliness, which the Bible preaches against.

At our church, the phrase "let God lead us" was used many times by different people. The meaning differ according to the different people who used it. Since 06, which is more than 2 years ago, the need of hiring a female pastor was raised in deacon board and it was agreed that church would hire a female pastor to accommodate the needs of the church. However, to this day, we still haven't hire a female pastor. I was there during the past 2 yearly church meetings, in '07 and '08, and at both meetings, our senior pastor and members and even ex-deacons raised questions about the progress of the hiring and emphasized the great need of a female pastor to help with the ministries at church. Brothers and sisters from different ministries demanded the deacon board to act, yet the chairman replied with a new excuse each time.

First, he said that they, the deacon board, would see if the church really needed one more staff.

This actually showed distrust of brothers and sisters at church, and the pastors at church. It was apparent to all who were involved in the ministries at church that there was an urgent need for a female pastors.

The staff were told to keep a log book afterward, and they kept the log book for a year and continued to do so to this day. A year afterward, the log book showed that the pastors were working about 13 hours per day. In a year time, existing ministries had expanded, fellowships had grew, new ministries had arised and church was going through changes as many couple were getting marry and we were seeing a baby boom.