God does not have a plan for our lives, and we should stop pretending that he has
Mark Woods 01 March 2015 Email Print More Sharing Services Share Stephen McKay Two rows of white arches near the top of the Aberfan cemetery mark the graves of the children killed in the colliery tip disaster of 1966. God has a wonderful plan for your life. It's evangelical orthodoxy, on a par with belief in substitutionary atonement and the sanctity of Spurgeon. It's part of the salvation package, along with forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. Christianity isn't just true, it offers the sure and certain knowledge that whatever happens to you is God's will. If you don't like it, it's because you haven't understood it. I don't believe a word of it. I understand where people who think like this are coming from, I really do. They have a deep sense of the sovereignty of God. They want to af...