Interesting. I recall back in the early eighties having a discussion with my pastor about a "five year plan" the Lutherans were considering. I pointed out that it made sense for secular powers like the USSR because they couldn't see past their own lifespan at the most. But if we had the faith of a risen God in our hearts, why shouldn't we initiate a five hundred year plan, knowing we would bequeath it unfinished to our children and their children, an act of faith like those great medieval cathedrals, where a stonecarver could spend his life and not see it finished but set his apprentice son to carry on the work in his place.
He got one of those famous "deer in the headlights" look on his face, mumbled something vague and changed the subject. Scarey to think the moslem brotherhood has that kind of faith but we don't even want to consider it.
Disagree. Trust God handle the big stuff, and do what He called you to do. Now if He doesn't happen to call you to help Him plan out the next 500 years...it hardly seems like a cause for alarm.