Kevin DeYoung has written a very insightful article over at Tabletalk magazine called The Glory of Plodding:

What we need are fewer revolutionaries and a few more plodding visionaries. That’s my dream for the church — a multitude of faithful, risktaking plodders. The best churches are full of gospel-saturated people holding tenaciously to a vision of godly obedience and God’s glory, and pursuing that godliness and glory with relentless, often unnoticed, plodding consistency.

It’s a good word for those of us infatuated with the idea of revolutionizing the church by cultivating a big, modern yet somewhat invisible Christianity.

Also contributing to the idea that church is more about being a consistent visionary more than a mega-church revolutionary is Dr. Larry Mininger’s thoughts on small churches titled Measuring Success. He says:

Fascination with bigness obscures the truth that Jesus, the builder (Matt. 16:18) and head (Eph. 1:22) of the church, has built many more small congregations than large ones. Small churches, not large ones, are the norm.

Good stuff with which to start the week.