A few notes from Gary Haugen — President of IJM:
- When did it occur to you that following Jesus was dangerous?
- There’s two responses to fear:
Become safer
Become braver
- Jesus is in the business of making people braver, not making situations safer
- Do you want to be brave or do you want to be safe? Because you can’t do both
- Football analogy — he loves the moment when kids realize that contact football is a contact sport
- Football is not just lights, cheering, cool uniforms, highlights
- It’s full contact.
- If you’re not getting hit, you need to check and see if you’re on the playing field
- It’s not safe
- What we want: “God, I’ll do anything for you IF I know up front what it’s going to cost me, how long it’s going to take, and whether I’m going to look fabulously successful aftwerwards”
- There are two types of people: those who choose to be safe and those who choose to be brave