In today’s episode, author Catherine McNiel shares the inspiration and questions behind her upcoming book, Fearing Bravely: Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers and Enemies. It’s a call back to the kind of discipleship that Jesus lived out and asks of us, and of his earliest disciples. What prompted a transformation of the timid disciples into the bold, fearless preachers we see after Jesus’s resurrection?   We talk about: 

• how fear is a helpful - yes, helpful! - feeling, and how it can also hold us back
• warning signs of being “discipled by fear”
• why loving others can feel threatening
• the idol of safety, and the good news about surrendering it to God
• what fear of God looks like, and doesn’t
• what privilege adds to our propensity for fear
• how to respond when your calling is not comfortable

  —   Find Catherine at CatherineMcNiel.com, @catherinemcniel on Instagram and Twitter, and @catherinemcnielwrites on Facebook.   (affiliate) Preorder Fearing Bravely here.   —   Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook @whatyoumakeitblog.   Get free Bible study resources at whatyoumakeitblog.com.