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Date: 2008-12-21
Welcome to Insight for Dying. The radical Christian network exists for the purpose of challenging all who are interested to be more radical followers of Jesus. Many of those who live where Christians are regularly persecuted for following Jesus have a constant reminder that following Jesus is a road of death. These Christians can persist to the end because, like Jesus, they see a joy set before them so great that any suffering now seems small in comparision (Romans 8:18-25). To those of us who have grown up in the Western world where the church is so like the world there is almost nothing to persecute, we do not have the reminder of persecution and suffering. Without that, it is easy for us to get comfortable with the way things are. It is a hard thing to actively and daily take up your cross and follow Jesus from a place of comfort. We comfortable camels have the unhappy task of trying to get through the eye of a needle, with little earthly motivation to do so, since we know there is very real pain and sacrifice involved. Clearly only God's spirit can enable us to do that.
This email newsletter exists to be a regular reminder to bring our focus onto our King who said this:
"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it."Such a project can never be a replacement for the work of the Holy Spirit. However, it is my sincere hope that he can use this as one way to bring our focus back from the thousands of distractions around us on to the path set for all who wish to follow in the steps of the slaughtered lamb.