Surfanthood: Learning to Serve by Learning to Surf

Surfanthood explores a simple analogy expanding the experiences of early ministry.

The analogy goes like this: The waves are God's activity in the world. The surfer is us. The board is our activity/ministry/service.

At best our activities, and boards, join with God's activity, the waves, to create something joyful, wondrous, and exciting. We submit to the wave and experience something beautiful. At worst we can wrestle and struggle, becoming increasingly tired, frustrated, and pained by what ...