by John D. Johnson

Created on: June 07, 2010   Last Updated: June 11, 2010

In a dependable daily ritual, people across the world lament the corruption of men who sit at the highest levels of free society. Meanwhile, many of those same good people are left to scratch their law-abiding heads with their hard-working hands, puzzled at how so many selfish and dishonest souls seem to have a fast track to career advancement, a decided advantage of sheer available resource with which the average guy simply cannot compete.

But what if he could?

What if the “what ifs” of life could be answered? These are the questions that all of us, believing and unbelieving alike, have mulled over at one time or another:

What if I had more time to develop my skills and knowledge in key areas?

What if I could concentrate on being my best as a believer and as a professional?

What if I were given help to reach my fullest potential?

And what if more devout Christians could ascend to positions of great influence?

Distilled to one query, the challenge for the serious Christian reads as follows: If someone offered to support you so that you could reach your maximum personal potential, would you accept?

It is an intriguing and compelling arrangement that each of us owes it to himself to consider seriously, no matter how unorthodox it may sound at first. We would be fair-mined to examine its likely benefits.

Imagine having the opportunity to enter into a full-time exploration of your own human and Christian potentials. Picture the excellent results that could spring from the charity of a generous brother or sister who is willing to underwrite the cost of getting you to be all that the Lord has made it possible for you to become! Gone from your mind would be the burdensome mental taxation of worry or distress normally experienced due to pressure to work, earn, pay, balance books, raise families, study, pray, and worship. With so many things competing for our strength and focus, who can devote to any one of them his complete attention?

In my own case, a sponsorship arrangement of this kind would have meant great relief to me in my twenties and early thirties, freeing me from much of the burden of working to provide the resources necessary to propel myself into the field of education and into the studies of my faith that I find so fulfilling (and yet so hard to do in any depth due to the constraints of time and money). It is impossible for me not to imagine where I might have gone, what I might have done, whom I might have met, or how quickly I might have

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