We know that we’re supposed to show our faith…to trust in God…but we also know that it requires risk to do so. And to risk is dangerous. But to take a step of faith is to risk, and to risk for the sake of Christ, is being Christian. John Wesley once said,
“Christian faith is then not only an assent to the whole Gospel of Christ, but also a full reliance on the blood of Christ, a trust in the merits of his life, death, and resurrection; a [resting] on him as our atonement and our life, as given for us, and living in us.”
(Salvation By Faith, Sermon #1, Works 1, 121 – underlining added for emphasis)