Combining a short-term spiritual objective with a more challenging spiritual objective provides some insight on how God's will work.
In this case, a spiritual group seeking to better understand a particular spiritual topic combined with attaining a complete explanation of how a spiritual process works overtime.
Fully understanding and following God's will for us requires both processes.
The simpler process taps spiritual leadership with conversational cooperation between the members of the spiritual group in seeking better understanding of the spiritual topic.
The leader of the group compiles a list of ideas appropriate for the topic and begins with a reminder of how the group is to pursue the objective.
No one in the group is a full expert on the topic but has spent time and acquired experience in understanding the topic in some general sense.
The dynamic of the group is one group member describing some aspect of the topic from their perspective followed by one or more group members attempting to clarify what the first member described about that topic aspect.
Such a process is limited in time, so, when a time limit is reached, the group leader summarizes what the group has accomplished in understanding.
The second process begins with almost no human understanding of what the final result will look like.
It requires tapping experience(s), at best similar to the desired result to be achieved.
This process reflects how God has shaped human culture over time.
We have many personal experiences that mimic this process.
For instance, an infant crawling then a toddler walking then adolescent running.
We start with the simplest objective with increasingly better solutions.
God's will achievement is like that, also.
So, could a church desire to combine prayer with following God's will.
Short term results prayer, "Please help my family and friends", has always been important to churches.
Long term results player is much more challenging because it requires stepping beyond tribal perspectives and realizing that God had a reason for encouraging human diversity.
Some complaints about secular reality overlook God's use of human diversity.
There are possible ways to shape human diversity that are pleasing to God.
However, the current secular model for ruling humanity requires significant change.
The secular world has no understanding in how to achieve that.
The past 10 millennia of human history illustrate that.
So, that leaves the churches and means some church separation from the secular world.
This is the question: how well do the churches understand God's will?
My answer is that the churches still have a lot to learn.
The state of the secular world illustrates that.
