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The narrow gate is not, as so often assumed, doctrinal correctness. The narrow gate is obedience—and the confidence in Jesus necessary to it.
— Dallas Willard
Jace Tuttle
Founder
narrow & sparrow began with an idea, birthed out of experience. This is what the biblical writers would call, knowledge. Knowledge is always experiential. I have come to love the questions as much as I have the answers in the pursuit of the good, the beautiful and the truth. Growing up as a son of missionaries, and from a family of minister’s, I was always surrounded by the Church. Over many years of following (to various degrees of success) I was struck by simple question, “what gospel did Jesus preach?,” and having found the answer to be the availability of life in the Kingdom of God, reorientation of my life around the Rabbai Jesus became central.
Over the years, I collected a unique combination of experience in both business and ministry. I have found great joy in integrating my time at Apple, The Digital Organizer and Ramsey Solutions, with a ministry background, church planting, a philosophy and theology degree and a few other stops in between. Now, helping pastors and ministry leaders navigate the complexities of the modern church with tools, both ancient and new, became my passion. There is freedom in constraints and the ability to express that creatively and with care for anyone I have the privilege of serving is a true gift.
behind the name
Tensions and Paradoxes
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. “ Matthew 7:13-14
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“Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?”
Matthew 6:26
The tension is to choose the path of virtue, the good life and become a good person, while finding a source, beyond mere willing, to bring it into existence. Tension and paradox are the air we breathe in the Kingdom of God. We find the strength to choose a narrow way that is more full by surrendering ourselves and trusting that God cares more about me than the birds whom he deeply values.
Invitation
Behind the name is a name worth following, Jesus. He is the one who perfectly held the tension of knowing, deeply and experientially, the Father who cares for the birds and living in a kingdom of his Father’s will being done.
Seek first the kingdom and all these things will be added. You would be hard pressed to find a group of people who follow Jesus say anything less than, “yes and amen” to that idea. Our focus is to determine and reorient those places where we are actually seeking our own kingdom, our own methods, and our own way. In a culture that celebrates opportunism as its driving force for more, we look to care for those in front of us first.