The Sovereignty of God and the Imperishable Seed.

Beneath the surface of our sincere and well-intended ideals also lies expectations. In the human experience, mismanaged expectations can often lead to disappointment, especially in the case of the church, where many of us hold unrealistic ideals of how the Christian community should be built. However, the church is not built by our ideals, but by the work of a sovereign God and the love of his son Jesus Christ. The Christian community, and the work done in us by the Father, deals with us as is - surrendered to grace and transformed by love.