By Mike Prom, Headwaters Christian Youth, www.wildleadership.org
We fail when we stay down, not get back up and not willing to learn from our experiences and then try again, doing things a little differently. Making excuses and blaming others when things don’t go the way we expect or want them to go is not the way to live life. Partly because it is difficult as Christians to be vulnerable with one another because we want to put on our “everything is wonderful” masks. Throughout the New Testament we are encouraged to love one another, build up each other and help one another to restore the fallen Christian, carrying or coming along side to be of a positive assistance (Galatians 6:1-2, Ephesians 4:29-32).
If we would be willing to become more vulnerable, the Christian community would become much safer to fail forward. Again, this is not a statement encouraging living a sin-filled life and justifying it by saying you are learning to “fail positively.” There is a false sense in our Christian world that we are supposed to be nice little perfect Christians, that when we attempt something for Jesus, it is to go perfectly the first time.
Why do I not want to be open with the people I go to church with? Because I don’t know how you will react when you find out I don’t do things right and make mistakes. There are times I still sin (and sin well). Other times I attempt something and thin ...
