So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

by Wayne Jacobsen

“We are to live on his ability, not our own. Remember what Scripture says about his ability: ‘And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.’ ‘Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us . . . ’ ‘I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him on that day.’ ‘Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.’ And he ‘is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.’ “That is an awful lot of ability going to waste if we think we have to do those things for ourselves. Our biggest messes come when we try to do something for God that we’re convinced he can’t do for himself.” “Then what do I do, just sit around and wait for God?” “Who said anything about sitting around? Learning to live by trusting Father is the most difficult part of this journey. So much of what we do is driven by our anxiety that God is not working on our behalf, that we have no idea of the actions that trust produces. Trusting doesn’t make you a couch potato. As you follow him, Jake, you’ll find yourself