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The more the Church was pressed, the more its life took root (Tertullian): no praise of suffering but a paradox. Their courage was communal, held between them in the shared meal, the prayer over the fearful, the hand that steadied the one who wavered. That was the Kingdom made visible. Rests on: [[the-kingdom-of-god-is-a-rival-claim-about-how-power-moves]]