Years ago, I read from an amateur pilot that 80% of the time one is flying the plane, he is making course corrections. If that is true in aviation, it is equally true in life. We have to constantly make course corrections.
How many of you cleaned out your house during the winter holidays? Did you clean out your kids’ toy boxes? Did you clean out from under the beds to make room for new stuff that would arrive on December 25th? Cleaning house is a course correction. You look around and say, “Wow! Things are dirty!” or “Wow! Things are disorganized.” Then you make corrections. Making corrections implies there is some kind of standard – like the instrument panel on an airplane. Making corrections means I recognize there is a standard and that something is not going according to the standard. Consequently, I have to change things to correct them according to the standard.
Man has a hard time flying according to God’s instrument panel. To use both illustrations, man has a hard time keeping house based on God’s expectations.
The Old Testament is full of stories in this regard. God’s people – either the Israelites or individuals – are faithful for a little while and then sin against God. The faithful make course corrections. The faithful cleaned house. The rebellious kept doing what they enjoyed doing and stuck their finger in the eye of God.
Although Jesus came to earth to give man a better, more spiritual relationship with God, it did not keep man from getting a dirty house.
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The Church in the New Testament still had to make course corrections. The church of Christ in Rome was teaching false doctrine on the grace of God (Romans 6). The church of Christ in Corinth was opening practicing division within Christianity (1 Corinthians 1). The church of Christ in Galatia was requiring circumcision as a part of the plan of salvation – “hear, believe, repent, be circumcised, confess, and be baptized.” The church of Christ in Colossae was teaching error about the nature of Jesus Christ (Colossians 2). The church of Christ in Thessalonica was teaching error on the second coming of Christ (2 Thessalonians 2).
It comes as no surprise, really, to see that the churches who received the letter that we know as the book of Revelation also had problems. They needed to make course corrections. They had a lot of dirt in their house and they needed to clean it out. Seven churches received the book of Revelation and eight times in those seven letters, various churches were told to “repent” – to make course corrections.
We can change how we present the Gospel in the 21st century. But we cannot change those things that God has specified we do in His word. That’s why we continue to meet for Bible study on Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights – to search the Scriptures to see how we need to live to please God.
–Paul Holland
