E.N. In the departure to the service, especially, in order for this service to embody in life, it is needed for the Christian to treat it with audacity...

V.E. Yes, just to watch such audacity: if this is the calling in Christ, that the Lord Himself gives the necessary strength, gives this audacity, then one is not afraid of what people think about one’s service. Audacity does not appear to be an end in itself. Even the opposite occurs like when a servant of God is not usually aware of his own piety, so he is not aware of his audacity. He goes where the hand of the Lord leads, and it happens, my student expressed one day, like the arising of a corridor: people move apart events, time itself and the possibility is given just like in the end of the slavery of the Israelites to the Egyptians when the sea parted and permitted man to pass through. How will you take the blessing to this audacity? It is already, after the event that a person looks back to the past, understands and makes a note: “My Goodness how could I...!”