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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.

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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
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