We should be radically Christian all the time.  

Fail and begin again is what Christians do!  It keeps us humble, leaving more room for God to work in.  Pride crowds out God. 

Read Romans 12 and sense it.  It's not the tenor of your notes to be sure.

We all fall short every day, but that doesn't mean we give up or whine or quit, or say "we won't until something somewhere else changes first". 

Read Romans 12...slowly and renew your sense for what St Paul was encouraging.

Parts of it read almost as if he was dictating it on horseback, galloping, unable to contain the Holy Spirit coming out of his mouth. 

That's the spirit of Christianity..and it's not beyond any of us to implement this spirit (His spirit) heroically daily right where we are, immediately and always. 

Falling short, sure, but beginning again with Him tomorrow, or earlier. 

We shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking Rome needs to change before we can live this spirit, heroically, today/now, right here.