Subverting our World’s Preoccupation with “Success”
By Trevin Wax on Mar 28, 2009 in Excerpts | 
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- We subvert the Caesar of Success whenever we, as a community of faith, reject the idea that bigger is necessarily better.
- We subvert Success when we go from riches to rags on behalf of the world’s poor rather than finding our hope in moving from rags to riches…
- We subvert Success when our churches partner with one another, not as competitors, but as co-workers in the kingdom…
- We subvert Success as businesspeople when we are willing to downsize, to take pay cuts to spend more time with family, to refuse a promotion that will sacrifice church and family ties.
- We subvert Success by praying for our competitors’ success, by thanking God for the success achieved by others, just as the early church prayed for the governing authorities who were persecuting them.
- a quote from my upcoming book, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Jesus in an Age of Rivals
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At first I read these quotes as we should be against success? Then realized that the word Caesar in the first instance was meant to change that meaning. There is nothing wrong with success as long as it is directed properly. A better, or at least a clearer phrase would be our “obsession with success” instead of “Caesar of Success”. Success in an of itself is not a bad thing. We all hope for success when exercising the great commission.
RJ | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
Pretty smart way of saying we are failures in the world’s viewpoint, but successful in God’s.
We must have negatives to accentuate the positives.
Dr. Paul W. Foltz | Mar 28, 2009 | Reply