No Reserves No Retreat No Regrets

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2. To play it safe is to play it wrong: “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad” (C. S. Lewis). 3. Don’t be fooled: you only make your mark in this world by thinking of the implications of the world to come. “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this [world]” (Ibid).

B. The Key Illustration: Are you currently living P arty Whistle style or Trumpet style ?

1. Party whistle style focuses on making lots of noise, even celebration sound, but in the end all it is, is noise, never a song. Trumpet style can be recognized to play songs of all kinds, even calling potential soldiers into formation for action.