> **[…] if God’s Spirit is among the people of God, wherever they are (including in congregations), then these are the places where it is possible to incarnate a missional life. As with the struggles of Israel, this kind of missional transformation is costly and requires hard work. > ** Fred Romanuk and Alan Roxburgh, *The Missional Leader (SanFrancisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006), 19.