THE BIBLE IS not a book for our convenience…

It speaks about commitment and sacrifice and going the second mile, leaving all to follow Jesus.  It talks about putting on the armor of a soldier and “enduring hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”  Commitment is written across its pages from Genesis 1.1 through Revelation 22.21.  Charles Stanley, “Commitment,” Confronting Casual Christianity, 41

When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”  Mark 8.34

Mike Benson