My husband’s college football coaches used to say, “You can make mistakes. Mistakes we can fix. But you’d better go at this with 110 percent. There is nothing that can happen without effort.” Friend, you and I need to be people who single-mindedly reject complacency and want God more than anything else on earth. Such surrender frees us from any worry about making mistakes or failing to look like those around us. First Corinthians is so clear about this. If you’re an elbow and you’re not being an elbow in the church, the body is not well. That should bug you! In some way that should make you
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