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What if I come to the end of this day safe and secure, and yet have not risk with a situation or a person?  What if I conclude this day feeling good, happy, and satisfied, and yet at no time felt pain, discomfort, or disgust?  What if I walk through this day fulfilled and complete in myself, and yet have not given a portion of my money, time, or self to another.  Then surely I have passed through this day but have not lived.

Regarding clergy and the kind of gospel preached two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard noted:

A nimble, adroit, lively man, who in pretty language, with the utmost ease, with graceful manners … knows how to introduce a little Christianity, but easily, as easily as possible.  In the New Testament, Christianity is the profoundest wound that can be inflicted upon a man, calculated on the most dreadful scale to collide with everything- and now the clergyman has perfected himself in introducing Christianity in such a way as it signifies nothing, and when he is able to do this to perfection he is regarded as a paragon.  But this is nauseating!  Oh, if a barber has perfected himself in removing the beard so easily that one hardly notices it, that’s well enough; but in realtion to that which is precisely calculated to wound, to perfect oneself so as to introduce it in such a way that if possible it is not noticed at all- that is nauseating.  -Søren Kierkegaard, Attack Upon “Christendom”, 258.

“He who loves the dream of a Christian community more than the community itself, often does great damage to that community, no matter how well-intentioned he might be.”
  -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted in David Bosch, Transforming Mission, 387.