Thanks for the replay Steve! I don’t pretend to be an expert of navigating this balance of risk vs safety. At a very baseline level, I think listening to our bodies and asking for our hearts to burn for the things Christ cares about will stir in us a conviction that something needs to be done. From there, in prayer with our families we decide how we address that conviction.

I really wrestle with this. When I was a younger man, working in our family construction business, I was not really afraid of heights (or much of anything). Then, we started having kids and building a family, and suddenly, I was really hesitant to walk out on a stretch plank or climb on a roof. I want to be a person who takes risks out of love for my neighbor, and sometimes I do, but many times I don’t because of how it might impact my family.

How do you balance risk taking vs. recklessness? How do you discern that line in your own life?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Justin! I appreciate the idea of risk-taking being an invitation for God’s kingdom to be present here and now, “on earth as it is in heaven.”