WRONG: YOU CAN COUNT ON IT

The religious in my circle are groomed to fear being wrong. No one in their right mind would prefer to be anything but right, of course. But this trained fear costs the church countless good works as well as an enormous amount of souls which could have been reached but instead will be lost without a word of hope.

Being wrong frightens those professing to believe in Christ so much that to do nothing, at least, mistakenly satisfies their fear of doing something and getting it wrong. Which wrong is worse; trying and failing or never trying?

It is a great responsibility to move from passivity to activity. But dear friends, responsibility is our great charge. I don't know of any leader among us who has not failed as much as he has succeeded. I think I may have failed more. Of course we don't like this. But the greatest failure, in my mind, is to have the power tools of God at our disposal and refuse to move onto the court and get into the game. That's cowardly and the Word says the cowardly will be lost.

Love is the ultimate. The opposite of love is not hate; it is fear. Being afraid and being in the kingdom is a contradiction. We may get many things wrong; but we must make concerted effort to try. Get it wrong? You can count on it....and you can count on God to use you anyway.