Tom & Alissa

I have not hidden my love for Andy Crouch’s new book, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, but I think his article from last week’s Comment is an important and incisive companion to the book, even if you haven’t read the book.

If you are afraid of failure you will ultimately create safer, smaller things than God made you to make. You will seek to save your life, but you may well lose it. Indeed, the secret of practices, patience, purposefulness, and real partnerships is that they all require us to embrace risk, and therefore lead us to the question of whom we ultimately trust. Do all these ‘p’s pay off in the end? Followers of Jesus know the answer.