Pastor John, you have a new book out, a little 50-page book titled Risk is Right, Better

to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It, and one of the more profound points you make in

the book, I think, is the idea that safety is a myth.

I would love for you to unpack this little phrase for us in this podcast.

What do you mean when you say that safety is a myth?

Well, it's a myth both as experience teaches us and as the Bible teaches us.

So go to the experience first and then in the Bible.

You can't put enough padlocks on your door and enough bars on your window to keep a heart

attack from happening.

There is no guarantee that anybody is going to live another breath and therefore all the

efforts that we make to keep ourselves safe are ultimately in an illusion in terms of absolute

security. God's, our life is in God's hands.

Come now, you who say, let's go up to such and such a city and spend a year there and

trade and get gain, you do not know your life.

It's like a vapor.

You are arrogant.

You ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this and that.

So there's no safety in the car to get you there.

There's no safety in the building while you're there.

There is no guarantees that you're going to live.

So that's what experience teaches us.

Safety is an illusion in terms of its guarantee.

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