09/05/2026
Because it is possible to sit safely on the sidelines and become an expert on everything that could go wrong for the person who actually got on the field.
It’s easy to critique someone’s building when you’ve never built.
It’s easy to criticize someone’s risk when you’ve never risked.
It’s easy to question someone’s obedience when yours hasn’t required you to leave anything comfortable.
And sometimes watching another person move exposes something uncomfortable in us: they are doing what we’ve been afraid to do.
That doesn’t automatically make everything they’re doing right. But neither does our discomfort automatically make them wrong.
I think the deeper Kingdom issue is this:
We need to stop measuring another person’s obedience by the limitations of our own faith.
If God told Noah to build, somebody watching from the sidelines wouldn’t have needed to understand the boat. Noah needed to understand the instruction.
And there is another side that keeps this balanced: the person moving in faith must remain humble, teachable, accountable, and willing to receive correction. Courage doesn’t eliminate counsel. Faith doesn’t eliminate wisdom. Obedience doesn’t eliminate accountability.
But once you’ve prayed, sought God, received wise counsel, and know what He has placed in your heart, at some point, you have to move.
And those standing on the sidelines are going to have to decide whether they’re going to keep commenting on somebody else’s obedience or finally confront what fear has kept them from doing.
I’m seeing that some people aren’t offended by your movement. Your movement is confronting their stagnation.
