Are Christian Leaders Smarter Than God?

Pastors and church leaders frequently grow impatient with God and seek to do His work by the power of the flesh rather than by the power of the Holy Spirit. The central problems of Christianity are always in the midst of the people of God and not in the circumstances of the world.  Satan strives to cripple the church from within.  Although Christians are useless to God without being empowered by the Holy Spirit, many pastors and church leaders ape the world's wisdom, trust its forms of publicity and imitate its ways of manipulating men.  If we put the world's wisdom at the center of our activities, we may gain the power of the world, but we will forfeit the power of the Holy Spirit.  The world, at every level, is aflame with war between the forces of good and evil.  But we cannot win our portion of the engagement with earthly weapons (Eph 6:10-18).