I Dare You
Embrace Life with Passion
Chapter One
Where Passion and
Purpose Start
The life of Jesus Christ was an absolute failure from every
standpoint except God's. But what seemed to be failure from man's
standpoint was a triumph from God's standpoint, because God's
purpose is never the same as man's purpose.
-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
On December 24, 1968, while families around the world celebrated the
arrival of Christmas, a quite different perspective was being seen a
couple of hundred thousand miles above the earth's surface.
Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, aboard
Apollo 8 for the historical first manned mission to the moon, looked
down in awe and wonder from their lunar orbit at the world below. In
a live television broadcast where they showed pictures of the earth
and the moon as seen from their spacecraft, the crew ended their
transmission with a reading from Genesis.
"For all the people on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we
would like to send you," said William Anders. "In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form,
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