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Автор: Ben Pugh
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costs thousands of dollars so nothing will be wasted. Nothing will be left in its original banal condition.

      The same week news came of a revival that was happening under Phoebe Palmer in Canada. Then, on 14 October came the Bank Panic—a massive financial crash involving 18 leading New York banks suspending operations and the subsequent failure of 5,000 American businesses over the coming year. The onset of the financial crisis had a remarkable affect:

      By early 1858, Lanphier’s original Fulton Street prayer meeting was happening on all three floors of the building. By March of the same year, an entire theater was commandeered for the same purpose. This was packed with 3,000 businessmen who came, not only to pray, but also to listen to a powerful preacher: Henry Beecher. Soon, the newspapers were reporting estimates of 6,000 people across New York attending prayer meetings every day. Soon, most of America’s other big cities followed suit: Boston, Chicago, Washington (where there were 5 meetings a day: 6.30am, 10.00am, noon, 5.00pm & 7.00pm), Buffalo, Newark, and Philadelphia.

      Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is also a hero that turns the Hero’s Journey motif on its head at this point. In 1939 he was enjoying a dream job at Union Theological Seminary in New York, having escaped Nazi Germany. Soon, however, there was a growing conviction that he must return to Germany and suffer with his people, a decision, as we will see later, that would cost him his life.

      What I want to tell you is that your ordinariness, like the ordinariness of big screen heroes in the opening scenes of a movie, is temporary, but so too might your nice life be. And your transformation into something extraordinary may or may not result in you achieving renown. The only thing that is guaranteed about being a real life hero on a real life hero’s journey is that your life will become more and more infused with an ever-clarifying sense of purpose. By the time you get to the middle of your adventure energy might be in short supply, courage might totter, companions might prove unreliable, even the final goal might become blurred in the haze of battle, but there is one thing you will never say. You will never complain that your life has no meaning.

      Discussion

      1. Have you an untapped potential, and are the routines of your comfortable life presenting you with no opportunity of exploring it?

      2. What might God have already said to you about this?

      1:2. The Call to Adventure

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