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Don’t Let Fear Stop You From Starting on Your Mission
By Steve Sjogren | June 16, 2006
Everyone who has done anything that has been noteworthy faced the fear of stepping out and doing something grand, the fear of failure.
Consider Mother Teresa. She was around 40 when she stepped out to obey the call of God upon her life to go to Calcutta and begin a home that would serve the dying in that huge city where approximately 1,000 died every day on the streets of curable diseases. She contacted the local Catholic church in Calcutta with her God-given vision. Guess what they said? Probably what they’ll say to you. “We’re doing a wonderful job with that issue already. We don’t need your help. Keep on doing what you have been doing…”
That is, teach French at a cushy private girl’s school in Europe. Yet she had a great audience she lived to satisfy, not the local church, who sometimes misses the boat out of their fear, shortsightedness or jealousy, but the God of heaven. That attitude persisted until…she made it onto the cover of LIFE magazine. It’s amazing how the Church’s attitude tends to change when one’s ministry makes it to the cover of a worldwide magazine a couple of times.
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