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# Displacing the foolishness of the cross
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20071114displacing-the-foolishness-of-the-cross-html/
- Published: 2007-11-14T22:33:37.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:22.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

[Michael Haykin](http://historiaecclesiastica.com/?ref=dashhouse.com) writes [a thoughtful post](http://historiaecclesiastica.com/?p=443&ref=dashhouse.com) on our tendency to depend on models for what God alone can give:

> As D.A. Carson, whose life and writings have been a tremendous inspiration to me personally, has rightly said: “We depend on plans, programs, vision statements—but somewhere along the way we have succumbed to the temptation to displace the foolishness of the cross with the wisdom of strategic planning.”