When Risking it All for God Means Staying Where You Are

Why ‘taking a risk for God’ often means opening our eyes to confront the uncomfortable realities right where we are.

“Why won’t you take a risk for God?”

I’ve sat in multiple small group gatherings when that question came up as part of a speaker’s discourse on a teaching DVD or within the paragraphs of a glossy study guide.

Usually, most of us in the room, myself included, squirm as we hear stories of missionaries moving to Africa, folks who gave up careers to move across the country or to take a job that was beneath their education level, Christian musicians who risked everything to go on tour with their families or nonprofit founders who ate Ramen for months on end.