The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus’ Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It

by Jamin Goggin

The way of weakness, as I understand it, has two basic aspects. One is that the watching world sees you as weak in the sense of being limited and inadequate. The second aspect is that you yourself are very conscious of being limited and inadequate. In that respect, we are all to walk in Paul’s footsteps, knowing God’s strength in the midst of our human weakness.”

Honestly, this feels so revolutionary

Twice over we neglect our Redeemer. We neglect him in our self-accomplishment, in our attempt to overcome our weaknesses with strengths. We also neglect him because we don’t believe we need him where we are powerful; we only need him where we are failing or still poor. In this sense, operating from our strengths is practicing atheism.

Every ritual to which Christ calls us invites us to die to the way from below—to put to death our autonomous power to control—and invites us to live and embrace self-giving, sacrificial love.

Therefore, we don’t begin with prayer as a device for getting things done, but as a means of communing with God who transforms the heart and leads us in the way.