… true success is found in the failure to find meaning and purpose in something we do, accomplish, build. Rather, our identity, our meaning and purpose, is not something we work for but receive from the hand of our Father. Chad Bird, Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life, as quoted at …
When God brings humans into relationship with himself he makes us part of a larger body. The danger is when being part of larger body becomes a substitute for a replacement for the relationship with God. That’s when we need to hear his call to come back to him. From Chad Bird: All of Israel’s …
Popular culture and social media has made failure into a status symbol, but usually presents failing as an egalitarian stepping stone to entail success. Almost like a rite of passage. David Zahl points out that this cultural tendency to gloss over failure as a stepping stone to success short-changes the suffering of those who fail, …
Sometimes I feel the effective Christian life is confined to one personality type. Or, at the very least, that it’s not fair that one personality type seems ideally suited for reaching out. Sammy Rhodes gives some relief with an observation that the Good News is embodied in a community of all types of people. One …
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