Let's go and fail together! This is what Spenser, one of our team said, when I shared with them some of the vision I think God is giving us. We are focusing on the Western suburbs of Melbourne, the poorest and most needy and unreached part of the city. The more we prayed and heard from God, the more we have realised the the challenge is not simply to plant a Church, but to saturate the whole region with church planting. The real question has become how many Churches are needed? 200? 500? I shared that God is setting us up with such an audacious vision that we are bound to fail. And their response? It was 'Let's go and fail together!' It spoke of abandonment to God, of faith, of shooting for the stars.
I like what Theodore Roosevelt said...
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
