Episode 66: 7 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life with Chad Bird

Failure makes you feel like . . . a failure. Should it? Should we celebrate some failures instead?

Today we talk to Chad Bird, speaker, podcaster, and author of Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life.

We will cover seven of those nine "essential failures." Three of which are:

• 1. The failure to believe in ourselves or, "The good news that God doesn’t believe in you"
• 2. The failure to follow our hearts or "Go home heart, you’re drunk"
• 3. The failure to find our soulmate or "Love will not sustain your marriage"

We also continue a bit of the shame talk (hearing from you listeners!), and play a Bible trivia game utilizing Matt Krieg's Bible trivia book from the 90s and the minds of all the nerds on the podcast.

Chad is real and really helpful. You're welcome to join us at the table.

 

//: Highlights:

• "God is a beatitude kind of God. He calls something 'blessed' that the world would often call 'cursed.'" --Chad Bird
• "Its no wonder if the kids wonder if God hates them, because a lot of what we experience in life make us feel like there is somebody above us, and we are on his hit list . . . The more we can focus God's love for us and everything that entails, that's really what the kids and the adults need to hear over and over." --Chad Bird
• "The more time we spend being formed but the Jerusalem of the church, the safer we will be in the Babylon of the world."--Chad Bird

 

//: Do the Next Thing:

• Follow Chad on Twitter and Facebook
• Read his book, Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Christian Life
• Check out his great website
• For More