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The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage is unavailable, but you can change that!

So much of our lives is caught up in the development and maintenance of security and control. But as Helen Keller observed, “Security is mostly a superstition. . . . Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” And when our only experience of Christianity is safe and controlled, we miss the simple fact that faith involves risk....

3. existentially trusting ourselves to the promises and claims of God that we find in them (fiducia). The first two levels, while necessary, require little from us in terms of personal commitment. Even if facts, theological or otherwise, do imply a certain obligation to live according to them, they don’t in themselves change us. Any preacher knows this. People live whole lifetimes accumulating facts about God and living lives far from him (Isa. 29:13; Matt. 15:8). Facts in themselves can be acknowledged
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