Mar
28
2009
Subverting our World's Preoccupation with "Success"
- We subvert the Caesar of Success whenever we, as a community of faith, reject the idea that bigger is necessarily better.
- We subvert Success when we go from riches to rags on behalf of the world’s poor rather than finding our hope in moving from rags to riches…
- We subvert Success when our churches partner with one another, not as competitors, but as co-workers in the kingdom…
- We subvert Success as businesspeople when we are willing to downsize, to take pay cuts to spend more time with family, to refuse a promotion that will sacrifice church and family ties.
- We subvert Success by praying for our competitors’ success, by thanking God for the success achieved by others, just as the early church prayed for the governing authorities who were persecuting them.
- a quote from my upcoming book, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Jesus in an Age of Rivals
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