I came across a podcast last week, with a high-performance psychologist who works with billionaires, the super successful tech founders and the ultra-wealthy. I was intrigued so I listened to it.

About half way through I was starting to get a little annoyed, because up to that point it had been mostly cliches…nothing really useful. But then, she said something that gave me the payoff...

She said, "One thing I've observed about the ultra-successful is that they are audacious..."

Boom, that's the word I've been looking for… Audacity.

Most of the time you hear it as a complaint, something used to describe a negative trait or a critique. "I can't believe their audacity… Who do they think they are?"

We've been wired to treat audacity like a character flaw.

But what if it's not? What if there's a redemptive component to it that we can use to advance the Kingdom…

What Does Audacity Look Like in the Kingdom?

I think the Kingdom way to look at audacity is to see it as being bold, willing to take risks, living courageously, solving problems innovatively and confidently…not being reckless but being certain.

Think about what a Kingdom Entrepreneur functioning from that kind of redemptive audacity could accomplish…

So why aren't more of us doing it? It's because of the lies we've been told by religion.

Since 2018, I've been helping and serving thousands of good, smart, Bible-believing people who love Jesus. And, I can tell you, a lot of us have struggled with this…

We're told that we're supposed to be meek and humble. And that is true, we are. But...

Humble doesn't mean being small. Humble doesn't mean staying irrelevant. Humble doesn't mean not being bold.

If we actually believe what Genesis 1:26 says... that we were made in the image and likeness of God and that we were created to rule…then maybe being audacious would be easy.

Because, someone who was created to rule, reign and have dominion… someone who believes they were made in God's image… That person would not be afraid to be audacious.

So the question becomes…do we really, and I mean really believe we are made in the image of God?

I've been a believer for 23 years, and I can tell you this honestly, I don't know that I have fully believed I was made in the image of God. I don't have a perfect revelation of that even though I know what the Bible says. If I really believed it, then there are things I would be thinking or doing differently…

Knowing something and actually believing it are two very different things.

This is probably why so many Christians have embarrassingly little fruit from what they say they believe. We have intellectual knowledge of what the Word says, but those verses have not transformed us from the inside out.

Until we actually believe them at a cellular level, they cannot produce fruit. Because in the Kingdom, you can only reproduce what you are.

The Invitation

To actually believe you were made in the image and likeness of God is not a normal belief for most Christians… It requires an audacious perspective.

Religion has robbed us of Kingdom audacity by telling us we have to think small, play small, and be small...it's not holiness. It's not righteousness. It's not humility.

Real humility is actually owning your awesomeness and believing that you and I were made in the image of God.

It tears me up to see so many amazing people…people who have been beaten up and beaten down, not just by the world, but by religion, convinced that playing small is somehow holy. It's not. And it's time to stop calling it that.

So this is the question I'm challenging myself with, and I'm asking you to consider too…

What does it look like to be fully surrendered, fully yielded to God, and still carry an audaciousness that allows you to dream, believe, and pursue things that just are not normal for most people?

What would it take for you to live like you really believe you are created in the image and likeness of God himself?

That's the invitation this week…start living an audacious Kingdom life.