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can't there one calibrating our compass. Bulls eye But Wrong Target, one of the best pistol marksman in the country, was traveling from town to town, putting on exhibitions. For many years, he had heard of a sharpshooter who had become a legend because of his extraordinary skill and had hoped that one day he would be able to meet this man he had heard so much about one day, he was passing through the small town where his hero lived. Everywhere he looked, he saw posters promoting this man's extraordinary skill. Each poster had a bull's eye target with a whole exactly. In the center, the young man began to ask the townspeople where this great marksman lived. His home was not hard to locate. Everyone knew exactly where he left. Having followed the directions, the young marksman soon drove into his icons driveway, walked up to the house and knocked on the door. Almost immediately, an elderly man greeted him there, and after a brief introduction, the young man said, Oh, my life. I have heard of you and your perfected skill. The man who never missed a perfect bull's eye, no matter how difficult the shot, how did you ever achieve such greatness? The old man looked at him with a twinkle in his eye, and as he opened the door, said, Follow me. The old man took off across his yard with the screen door snapping behind him, and proceeded to walk out behind the barn, where the young man saw a medium sized target. On the side of the building, in the center of the target, was a bullet hole, a perfect bull's eye. That's that's what I was talking about, said the young man. After finding out that the old man fired over his shoulder while looking into a mirror, he said, How can you consistently maintain such perfection? Well, the old man said, It's really quite easy. First I shoot the bullet and then I draw the circles we left. But isn't that what we sometimes do? And Christian ministry? We shoot first and then decide what the target is, and sometimes we just blast a wide pattern of book shot. That way we're sure to hit the target. Could it be that one reason the church's failing is because we do not know where the bull's eye is? Please think along with me as we consider God's purpose for this age, his plan for the church and then his procedure for accomplishing his plan. As we calibrate our compass, it will become clear that many have aimed at the wrong bullseye.