There's a way to grow a monster without ever laying a hand on the child. You just keep telling them, by your silence, that they're too precious to be corrected.

There is a persistent assumption in the life of faith that the most important things happen all at once. What Scripture resists, consistently and with intention, is the idea that the sudden is where the real work happens. The real work is quiet.

One flame doesn't diminish when it lights another. It multiplies. That's not just a picture of fire — it's the entire strategy of the early church, and it's the calling every believer carries whether they know it or not.