A challenging quote included in the Sunday sermon on 1 Peter:
“Your call may not involve literally hanging on a cross, being jailed or being burned at the stake here in America. But there is a fight that is much more subtle and much more insidious in America because we live in a society where pride and materialism and recreation and prosperity and fitting in has slowly taken away the sharp edge in most professing Christian’s lives. We look around and we rarely see anyone denying themselves, taking up their Cross and following Jesus. Now don’t you find that odd, since in Luke 9:32, Jesus literally said that unless you did so, you are not a follower of His at all. But the reality is that we’re in a culture that is built on free will instead of God’s will and that is why we must be the freaks. And while that may not mean being called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. In other words, we are called, particularly here in the United States to put the selfish, self-centered, materialism and recreation-oriented ways of life to death and march to a different beat altogether”
-Quote From Jesus Freak a.k.a. Martyrs video
