Monday, August 28, 2006

High Risk Faith

Recently I finished reading Erwin Raphael McManus' book Chasing Daylight.

What an incredible challenge to any person's faith!

So often my goal is to avoid failure and minimize risk. I then wonder why God never does anything amazing in my life.

Abraham followed the call of God on his life, left the land of Ur and went "without knowing where he was going."

This is the kind of reckless faith that can unleash the power of God. This is the kind of faith that I want.

But the message is gets even deeper.

Reckless faith like that of Abraham assumes the possibility of failure. It's possible that I won't succeed, and yet this is what makes it so exciting.

It's like the friends of Daniel who refused to bow to the king's image. "Our God will deliver us out of your hand O King. But even if He doesn't, we are not going to worship the golden image."

There is no false promise of health, success, or fame. Just uninhibited adventure.

In the spring our family will embark on this sort of adventure, attempting to do in Italy what has never been done here before.

Along with a great team of coworkers we will attempt to ignite a church planting movement, multiple churches in less than five years.

High risk, but even greater reward.