Get Up and Go

DIY, Christian Style: Be a Fool for Christ / 35

supposedly strange, odd, or impossible it may seem, at first glance, to be. The history of Christian service and ministry is filled with stories of individuals who were willing to live as a fool for Christ in order to care for others in a tangible way. To be filled with the Spirit we must, like Paul, be willing to be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to people. To become a fool for Christ, to obey with courage and aggressiveness his challenge to you in spite of the unlikelihood of your attaining it – this is the key to fruitfulness in ministry. We who love the Lord must “get up and go,” respond- ing in courage to God’s call, striving with what we have to accomplish what he desires, trusting him to provide for us all that we need to produce what he wants. Honestly, DIY culture and Christian culture have much in common: they both pursue relentlessly their dreams regardless of what others think, they do not allow a shortage of resources to block their creativity, and they are willing to make extra- ordinary sacrifice to attain their goals. They do it to express, as Daniel said, “something within [them] that wants to create and make a difference, that wants to be excellent and wants to share that excellence with anyone who is interested, and that refuses to compromise its own standards.”