"Empower all followers of Jesus ... without counting the cost" is a mistake.  Prudence requires the cost be counted.

"If you, though a Jew are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?" (Galatians 2:14).  In this Presidential election season in the USA, the Faithful need to engage the electoratge and follow truth wherever it leads.  One candidate consistently tells the truth and the other candidate consistently denies the truth, as should be evident if the media shows what the Catholic Vice Presidential candidate said in contrast towhat the once Catholic candidate denied.

Paul, with the Liturgy of the Word, Reading 463, Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time II, shows the Faithful how to follow the truth in the contest of a Teaching Magisterium that is just learning the message.  Catholics need not be afraid to "Go out to all the World" especially in the context of the just-finished (to be continued)