The famous explorer, Rear Admiral Robert Peary, who is credited as being the first person ever to reach the North Pole, was on one of his many polar expeditions one time headed north with one of his dog teams. At the end of the day, when he stopped to take a bearing on his latitude, he was perplexed to discover that he actually was farther south than he had been at the beginning of the day.

The mystery was eventually solved when he found out that he had been traveling on a gigantic ice floe. Ocean currents were pulling the ice floe south faster than the dog teams were running north. In other words, he thought he was running in the right direction, but he was getting farther away from his goal.

I believe the modern day church is in that same situation. It is moving in many directions, try…