Thursday’s focus in ‘Disturbing‘ each week is ‘nation’. Bodenheim asks in her writing, ‘do we try to maintain an image of perfection?’

I try to be the best I can, but is that giving an impression of perfection? I’m not sure that it is, but I can see how it can easily become a strive for perfection, which is a useless strive as only God can do perfection!

While travelling around London today for a Hope 08 meeting and then meeting up with Simon from Swindon YFC I was struck by the ‘perfection’ that London wishes to portray; it’s a perfection that border and melts into arrogance.

Across the nation, have our churches fallen into this trap of perfection? Ian blogged yesterday on the business model of church, where church becomes motivated by performance, failure is wrong and little space is made for the weak, the poor and the marginalised.

Advent is a time to remind ourselves that we are merely creators, maybe even co-creators, but we are not THE creator, we cannot achieve perfection.

Perfection is totally, uniquely and exclusively within the domain of God.