"[Jesus] called the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become My followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me'." (Mark 8:34 NRSV)
The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite physical agony and rejection by the world. No amount of air-conditioning and pew-cushioning in the suburban church can cover over the hard truth that the Christian life... is a narrow way of suffering; that discipleship is costly: that, for the faithful, there is always a cross to be carried. No one can understand Christianity to its depths who comes to it to enjoy it as a pleasant weekend diversion.
-- W. Waldo Beach in The Christian Life
#2260
Monday, March 9, 2009
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Pastor, for choosing this one! At age 85 and counting I can attest to it. And--receiving this from a friend during the past week--I still marvel. She wrote : "I wish you more blessings than you can stay awake to count this evening!" Isn't that delightful? And, EACH MORNING- "Sound Bites" arrives! You do the work for your countless readers--thanks soo--- much!
E. Nohr