Many of us fear we’ll take the wrong job, or buy the wrong house, or declare the wrong major, or marry the wrong person, and suddenly our lives will blow up. We’ll be out of God’s will, doomed to spiritual, relational, and physical failure. Or, to put it in Christianese, we’ll find ourselves out of “the center of God’s will.” We’ll miss God’s best and have to settle for an alternate ending to our lives. Several years ago I read The Will of God as a Way of Life, by Gerald Sittser. His book helped me crystallize my understanding of what I felt was wrong with the traditional understanding of
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