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Danielle Strickland | recipe for confronting a culture of comfort

A parent of a young woman applying to The War College (an incarnational mission training school in Vancouver, Canada) was grilling my husband on the risks associated with her coming. I happened to overhear the conversation and couldn’t hold back. I suggested that if his daughter wanted risk she could find it in other places. Actually, if it’s risk we are after, the enemy and the world has it in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes. The real dilemma for Christians who desire to upset the culture of conformity is that most Christian programs/places or people don’t offer any risk at all.

Actually, it is commonly assumed that risk itself is ungodly. What we really need is safe, measured and balanced lives - which often, when translated, means to settle with the culture in a comfortable balance of mediocrity and compromise. In other words, as I concluded in my early life, Christianity equals boring. What a stark contrast to early Christianity in Acts or in the early church or frankly in any Christian who has lived like Jesus. Christianity itself is a risk venture of faith that confronts the conformity of the world.

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