God does not respond to what we do.

God does not respond to what we do. We respond to what God does. (Romans 3:27b The Message) If this is true it has big implications on the way we look at God. It means that all the striving for approval and 'doing great things for God' seem somewhat misguided. What really matters is finding out what God is doing and responding to it. We can't this is if we aren't willing to drop all our plans,
programmes and procedures and be flexible enough to follow his lead - which is a big departure to what goes on in most of the church that I see today.