Going first
Posted by tom | Apr 20, 2010
Below's another challenging quote from the final chapter of Jon Acuff's Stuff Christians Like (Zondervan, 2010),* the context is a discussion of sharing true confession of sin/prayer requests ...
If I stop writing tomorrow this is the lesson which I'll cling to the most, When you go first, you give everyone in your church or your community or your small group or blog, the gift of going second. It's so much harder to be first. No-one knows what's off limits yet and you're setting the boundaries with your words. You're throwing yourself on the honesty grenade and taking whatever fall out that comes with. Going second is so much easier and the ease only grows exponentially as people continue to share, but it has to be started somewhere. Someone has to go first and I think it has to be us. Let's give the gift of going second. -- Jon Acuff's Stuff Christians Like (Zondervan, 2010).
Father, grant me the grace to follow the lead of your Son Christ Jesus and the direction of your Spirit and Word as part of the Body of Christ spanning history in all the contexts to which you have called me to serve.
*Earlier Stuff Christians Like excerpt posted at Who is carrying all that with you?, http://groshlink.net/archives/2010/04/17/who-is-carrying-all-that-with-you.
