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Here's a helpful quote for visionaries like me who are sold out for the Gospel and who wish we could have lived in the early days in order prove we're willing to pay, the price of costly grace.  May God grant me the grace to Not be Ashamed of the Gospel, i.e., the Living Person, Word and Work of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Body, where the particular time and place to which I have been called to be a witness:

So the martyr stories had to get across a very important message: Don't go seeking wild beasts and torture chairs! But if you are forced to suffer for your faith, here is how to act and what to say—be like these brothers and sisters in Christ who did not give in when persecuted, but trusted God. -- Christianity Today Article Dying to be Faithful: Persecution brought out the best and worst in the early Christians" by Jennifer Trafton.