Emphasis Preaching Journal

The woman leading a group of seminary students on a weekend retreat asked them to meditate on the question, "What will it cost me if I follow Jesus?" She told the seminarians to be specific in their answers. Absolutely anyone could say, "It will cost me my life." That was perhaps a way of saying everything at once, but it was also a way of saying nothing at all. Crosses have their own individual shape, the leader said, their own particular knots where they bite into the flesh of our lives.