Knight of Faith

Chapter 10
Standouts

"God's calling is the key to igniting a passion for the deepest growth and highest heroism in life."

"a knight of faith" - Soren Kierkegaard

"He accepts whatever happens in this visible dimension without complaint, lives his life as a duty, faces his death without a qualm. No pettiness is so petty that it threatens his meanings; no task is too frightening to be beyond his courage." - Ernest Becker

"Following the call becomes the secret of growth and a key to heroism in two ways. First, God's call always challenges us directly to rise to our full stature as human beings."

"God's call resonates in us at depths no other call can reach and draws us on and out and up to heights no other call can scale or see."

"This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life." C.S. Lewis

Second, God's call to follow him is vital to growth and heroism because it includes the element of imitation. . ."

"Modeling - observing and copying - is vital to discipleship because of the biblical view of the way disciples must learn. There is always more to knowing than human knowing will ever know. So the deepest knowledge can never be put into words - or spelled out in sermons, books, lectures, and seminars. It must be learned from the Master, under his authority, in experience."

"Real lives touch us profoundly - they stir, challenge, rebuke, shame, amuse, and inspire at levels of which we are hardly aware. That is why biographies are the literature of calling; few things are less mechanical."

"No more do we change by ourselves as we imitate Christ. The imitation of Christ that is integral to following him means that, when he calls us, he enables us to do what he calls us to do.
Has anyone said it better than Oswald Chambers in his matchless description of the disciple's master passion, 'My utmost for his highest'?"

One of the questions in the study guide for this chapter asked,"Who are your heroes and why?"

I discovered the bookmobile in the 6th grade. It regularly visited my school and one day I borrowed a book about Amelia Earhart. I enjoyed reading biographies and of all the ones I read, Amelia Earhart is only one I remember reading. Her courage and daring inspired me. It pushed her to the ultimate pursuit of flying around the world and getting lost in her last leg over the Pacific Ocean. Wow.

The Scripture Focus was Matthew 25:14-30, on the talents. The servants who took the risk were rewarded. What they had was multiplied. The one that hid what he had been given was afraid to take risks. God calls us to live like Jesus. If we take the step to risk it all, we will find him faithful to enable us to live out the call given.