The Crime of Living Cautiously: Hearing God's Call to Adventure

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InterVarsity Press, 2005 M04 6 - 140 pages

Unexpectedly, the moment of opportunity comes to us--the prospect of entering a reality larger than we'd guess. A spacious option opens up before us, an urgent demand that seems to call for special enterprise, life-threatening perils or summons to action. Suddenly we realize that such a chance might never come again. What do you do when faced with such a moment? Do you sometimes get frozen into a state of inaction? Do you wonder if you are wasting the talents God has given you? Or if you enjoy adventure, do you struggle over whether a risk is just a reckless attempt to feed your own needs or a true calling from God? Luci Shaw has learned to act with discernment in regard to motivation and calling. She has discovered a path of deep joy and fulfillment by risking the unknown in partnership with God. In this book you will find the way to break through the fear barrier and follow God to new levels.

 

Contents

Acknowledgments
9
LIVING THE ADVENTURE
11
GODS CALL OR MY IMPULSE?
27
BREAKING THE FEAR BARRIER
47
THE RISK OF RELINQUISHMENT
59
THE RISK OF DISSENT
71
THE RISK OF RELATIONSHIP
87
THE RISKY ADVENTURE OF THE UNKNOWN
103
Our Human Heroes
117
CHOOSING TO LIVE ON THE EDGE
133
Poems Quoted 139
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About the author (2005)

Luci Shaw graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, magna cum laude and is currently a writer in residence and lecturer at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. She has worked as an English stylist for The Message. Shaw has also served as vice president, president and senior editor at Harold Shaw Publishers. She presently serves as Lay Eucharistic Minister and lector at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bellingham, Washington. Her poetry has been read on national television, and she has been interviewed on Prime Time America. Her most recent poetry collections are Water Lines and The Green Earth (Eerdmans). She has appeared in several magazine cover stories (such as Today's Christian Woman and Christianity the Arts), and many of her writings are being collected at the Buswell Library at Wheaton College in The Luci Shaw Collection. She is the author of numerous books, such as The Secret Trees (Campus Life Book of the Year) and God in the Dark (ECPA Gold Medallion Nominee). She is also the coauthor of three books with Madeleine L'Engle, including Friends for the Journey.

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