It's our nature to avoid the risk of failure. We get our identities so tied up in our attendance stats that we forget the true mission. This is a great reminder to me to get out on the bleeding edge where Jesus is.

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I am a little shaky on "What can you be the very best at". That is way better than Seth Godin's "Unless you can be the best in the world, don't do it". But it still verges on that.

I would say, a better question is (presuming you are following God, have prayed about it and are lead to it) "How can you join together with a community to make that community better at following God."

I know Craig is interested in community and building up the kingdom and not his own little world. And maybe he is saying it somewhere not on this clip. But as he says it on this clip it is a very individualized charge. We as Christians are not called to be individuals we are called to be the church. So that means we need to fit into the body.

Now in the context of the body, the eye is the very best part at seeing things. But the eye can only see things if the eyelid is open. So we need to work at not only doing what we can be best at, we need to also being doing what we are best at in community and partnership with others that are also doing what they are best at.

If we all go running off on our own we are doing exactly what Paul said not to. We are eyes saying to the hand "I have no need of you".

I am probably taking Craig (and John) out of context here. But I think we as Americans have been so bad at this that we need to continually be brought back to better teaching on the church body. There is no such thing as a Christian apart from the body and Christ as its head. (I am not talking about local congregations here, but about the universal church body).