The words of Jesus were clear: to be his disciple, one must take up their cross and follow him. He calls us to take up our own personal death, death to ourselves, our will, our desires, and to be identified with Christ. He calls us to endure shame and ridicule as one of his own, to be counted as Christ’s. The call of a disciple is a call to stand up for Jesus.

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