Failures -- or Only Setbacks?

"According to Tulane University business professor Lisa Amos, entrepreneurs fail in an average of 3.8 business ventures before they finally make it. The successful ones aren´t deterred by mistakes or adversity because they don´t see setbacks as failures. They recognize that three steps forward and two steps back still equals one step forward…." (John Maxwell, 1Leadership Wired, January 2000.) The same is true in the spiritual realm: "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Galatians 6:9