How were you raised to deal with failure? Perhaps in a positive way by your parents, but was it ridiculed by your peers. For most people we were raised to think of failures as not only things to avoid, but things to hide. The Jesus movement dealt with failure in a counter-cultural way: it embraced it and simply asked people to learn and try again with a new beginning. While seemingly simple, this core philosophy was radical in a society that dealt in shame like currency.