Plans Are Overrated

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15

If there’s anything the past 20 months have taught us is that plans are overrated. Right when we started Perch.Church as a house church almost three years ago, Al Han wrote a detailed church plant plan. Can you guess what wasn’t on that plan?

Now we realize what’s required of a new community, we have to treat plans like football plays rather than blueprints. Blueprints need to be exact and followed precisely as designed. Football plays are rough approximations of how we hope the play will go, but we need to be ready for the unexpected.

This is how we’re supposed to approach our relationships, especially those we love. We can have a general direction of how we want our relationships to be, but we also need to leave plenty of space for the unexpected.

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”
– Winston Churchill