What other questions can you think of?
If the answers you get back concern you, let me suggest that you begin finding ways to cut the ties to the comfortable life to which you may have become addicted. Begin experimenting. Simplify your lifestyle. Awaken your compassion – sponsor an orphan or befriend the homeless. Quit your job and go on an extended mission trip. Begin talking with other seekers about what abandon looks like to them. Or, to really put yourself at risk, sign up for a year-long mission trip where God can reinvent you.
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I'm motivated to join God in his global reclamation project. He's on the move, setting his sons and daughters free from their places of captivity. And he's partnering with those of us who have been freed to go and free others.
Questions:
1. What areas of my life do I still retain control?
2. Do I assume responsibility at church for programs that others should be doing?
3. Do I make an idol of wealth or poverty?
4. Do I have to be visible? Could I be comfortable with being invisible?
5. Could I move from success to significance?
6. Could I move from significance to insignificance if God called me there as well?
7. Do I empower others?
8. Do I believe in an extravagant God who might have me spend one year being mentored full time by another person?
9. Do I experience fear at my ideas being rejected?
10. What is the underlying issue that I really afraid to address?