Bonhoeffer is quoted as saying ' The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the communion with Christ.

Pastor John spoke of a book entitled 'The Cost Of Discipleship' by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who died young and was part of the Protestant resistance movement against the Nazis in Germany. The cost itself will be a means of making Christ look great.' () ' When we embrace with joy the cost of following Christ, his worth will shine in the world. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true as unknown, and yet well known as dying, and behold, we live as punished, and yet not killed as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing as poor, yet making many rich as having nothing, yet possessing everything.'The life of a Christian is one that is costly, but one that is not without rewards.

'We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love by truthful speech, and the power of God with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. Part of magnifying the cross of Christ in our life is living a life similar to what we see described by Paul the Apostle in 2 Corinthians 6:3-10 (ESV):

John piper dont waste your life