To take up your cross, to carry your cross, is to be willing to die in order to follow Jesus. While there were those who gave their literal lives for Jesus, as many of the disciples were said to have done. Carrying your cross meant more than that, it meant dying to self, surrendering all aspects of your life to Jesus.
Many of us understand that we need die to self in terms of sinful behaviour but there is another way in which we need to die to self…
Sermon by Graham Mol