Risk

Here at Dayspring we have a favorite question that we love to ask… ‘If you were turned loose to do ministry, what would it look like?’

That is a dangerous yet exciting question.
* Dangerous because when Jesus gets ahold of someone, we don’t know what it will look like.
* Exciting because when Jesus gets ahold of someone, we don’t know what it will look like!

This is a safe place to explore call and passion to step out and impact the Kingdom. We love to be on the alert to notice giftings in each other and in ourselves. When a gifting is highlighted, we walk with each other to test and see if and how God is in it. We know from Hebrews 3:7-10 (AMPC) that Holy Spirit is eager for us to hear the Father’s voice today, perceive and recognize His ways, and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them. So we are undaunted to take the leap and try out (or ‘experiment’ with) new ideas and strategies.

This might look like calling someone out to join Second Saturday, a leadership development training series that is held monthly. It might look like testing a particular heart-pull to some specific community outreach. Whatever it might be, we intentionally take risks to step outside of the known and predictable when we sense that we are being nudged by Holy Spirit. Sometimes we experience flops and setbacks, but in the context of the body of Christ, even those times can bring meaning and growth.

At one point back in Dayspring’s early days we recognized that risk taking was in our DNA. We had a running ‘joke’ that when we eventually got our own building, we would write it on the sign:

Dayspring Christian Fellowship – We Take Risks

Today we are still taking risks AND seeing God work in amazing ways! We’re seeing people and our land transformed when they step into their identity and destiny.

Risk is stepping outside your comfort zone to a place where you cannot predict with any degree of certainty the outcome of your actions. Risk is taking on something that holds an enormous chance of failure. Most importantly, risk is the only real way to outrageous success.
– General Electric CEO Jack Welsh

– [by Pam Bartholomew]