If you've read my posts from May-June, 2008 (you probably haven't), then you know that growing up I always wanted to be "the natural" at everything in which I invested myself. Along the way, I quit a lot of things...
I have learned to have a high toleration for failure that balances my enthusiasm for strategic experiments. Whether it be my renaisssance period in which I would set up a weekly environment for my own creative artistic expressions through painting (fail), or my indoor gym and P90x training days (epic fail), I continue to work to find myself, my rhythm, my way.
In ministry, I have had incredible opportunities to work with groups who loved experimentation with new ways to "be rooted and built up" in Christ's ways. Often times, we have failed, accepted failure, and moved on the right things...which I call "wins". You can never win if you are so afraid of losing that you don't play. Just because it works, doesn't mean that it is working at our full potential (I have a low toleration for mediocrity). As we calculate our steps now, we must always look behind and ahead; learning and experimenting, trying and testing, failing and winning. Just make sure that everyone understands that failure isn't really a loss...it's a step in the path to winning.
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