This has been on my mind lately: Maybe the reason we don't succeed more is that we don't fail more.
It's easy for me - and I'm sure for many of you - to live life in a very 'play it safe' mode. Try to have a game like Tony Romo last night - no interceptions, no touchdowns.
God continues to nudge me out of my comfort zone for His Kingdom. I think He wants our church more and more out of our 'comfort zone' - looking for ways to courageously and creatively pursue Him so that people will know Jesus.
It's easy to live in this comfort zone that is controlled by the fear of failure. I like what Mark Batterson says: "The antidote for the fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure." With a vaccine, the idea is that you get just enough of the disease to train your body to reject it. It's the same with failure. If we just go for it, we'll see that failure doesn't kill us. It's not trying - living the listless/apathetic life - that kills us.
Craig Groeschel says this: "Fail! If you're not failing, you've stopped dreaming. You'll eventually stop learning. And you will stop growing."
Where do you need to go for it? Where do you need to live out your faith in a radical way? Where do you need to sacrifice so others will see Jesus?
"For the Kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power." 1 Cor 4:20
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Success or Failure?
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that is ironic because I was just at a business seminar last weekend and one of the things he said was, "If you're not failing, you're not trying!"
Even the business world understands the principle that God set in motion. There is no return without risk - it's true in starting a business, in the stock market, in athletics, in having a baby . . . and it's so true in the Kingdom! God wants us to go for it! Not to stand around and wait for someone else to.
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