I will never forget the opening chapel of my second or third semester at Asbury.  There was this huge painting of Jesus crucified at the front of the chapel.  And as J.D. Walt was finishing his sermon he pointed to the painting and said, "Behold your syllabus".  Those are probably the most significant three words of my life.  This is the man we are called to imitate?!  It is the most absurd thing, yet the most world-changing thing that could ever be imagined.  Dying to live.  Becoming last and least so that others might become first and more.  Loving wrecklessly because he has wrecklessly loved us!  That kind of love always leads to a cross.

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