Speaker: Tom Morris A coffee four years ago with Jeff Jarvis changed my view of the journey. It is amazing how small seeds, great love and a searching heart create new openings for life. Ladder-climbing Western culture, and the clinging human ego, made the Gospel into a message of spiritual advancement—ascent rather than descent. We hopefully do advance in “wisdom, age, and grace” (Luke 2:40), but not at all in the way we thought. Jesus again got it right! He brilliantly and personally taught the way of the cross and not the way of climbing.