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But the standard churchy spirituality doesn’t require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

— Alan Hirsch The Faith of Leap (2011)

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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus’s name.

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The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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