As we journey through the New Testament daily, we are getting to Mark 8:34-38.  Jesus gives the crowd, and the disciples a description of discipleship.  This is his notorious message of telling the crowds to take up your cross and follow me.  An extreme call to discipleship that may have been misunderstood to the modern day Western mind.  But reading it through the lens of a 1st Century Jew or Gentile, they would understand the cross differently, especially pre-resurrection. Grab your pen, or your notes page on your phone, ready to write down Jesus’ process of what it takes to be his disciple!