How can these things be compatible: we want to be Christians, disciples of Jesus Christ, who bore the cross for the whole world and chose to do so voluntarily, and yet we reject our own cross? Jesus says, "He who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me" (Matt. 10: 38)...
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Topics: Suffering, Pain, Cross, Basilea Schlink, Luke 14:27, Avoid The Cross, Unwillingness To Suffer, Matthew 10:38, Count The Cost
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