“I think we have run to the safety of programs in exchange for God’s divine purpose,” he added. Stier explained that the phrase “picking up your cross and dying to yourself” looks like “risking our social equity by putting Jesus out there with our lips and our lives.”
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“That risk can mean we could be marginalized or mocked,” he said. “In some cultures, you could be mangled and murdered…you don’t have to pay that in a meeting when you’re surrounded by other Christians.”
Louie Giglio, global pastor of Passion City Church, wrote the foreword to “Radical Like Jesus” and called the message of book a “crucial” and “timely reminder of the relentless pursuit of Jesus’s love and the importance of carrying out the gospel to the ends of the Earth.”
“Radical Like Jesus” can be found anywhere books are sold. It can be preordered here.
