We think we have rights. We’re entitled to a dream. We are “good people” and we deserve “it.” We want to see the dream come true—with us at the helm.
We want to show up all of those people who said it was a pipe dream, that we could never do it, that it could never be done.
What if your role in the vision is nothing more than to hold it up and say, “This is a worthwhile vision”?
What if your role is not to be on stage? What if your role in the vision is to have it so that you can give it away?
Instead, we so frequently copyright the vision, or patent it—or, if we can do neither, then we hide it away. If we can’t benefit from it, and we can’t sell it, then we won’t share it.
Jesus offers sacrifice, crucifixion, death-that-turns-to-life. He models us on seeds that must fall into the ground and give up everything in order to reap a harvest.
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