a life of risk

the role of the church is to cultivate a people who can...

risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive society, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.

-stanley hauerwas


i read this quote today and seriously, wow. the call to follow Christ is to live a life of risk. and to risk because we have the confidence that we are Christ's. we have died and made alive again in Christ, into a new reality. all i can say to that is amen.