Patterns vs. Particulars

When Redeemer was founded eleven years ago, its leadership laid out seven key characteristics we were hoping for in our stakeholders. Number seven was, “Is drawn more to patterns than particulars.”

That one’s especially important as we pursue our shared vision of the mission of God in the world. Because in order to really understand this, we’ve got to look at some of the bigger stories that reveal important patterns in the Scriptures.

When we get lost in particulars, we lose patterns. And so, we often can’t see the forest for the trees.

But it wasn’t always like this.