Crossbearers (SFOT 2000-2002)

"The passion story becomes a road map for all of Jesus' followers (who deny themselves and take up their crosses) whether Christians martyred in the first, or Christians bold in the [twenty-first], centuries.... In suffering is he revealed! In the experience of our own crosses is he made manifest.... 'Jesus has many who love His Kingdom in Heaven,' writes Thomas à Kempis in The Imitation of Christ, 'but few who bear His Cross. Many follow Jesus to the Breaking of the Bread, but few to the drinking of the Cup of His Passion. They who love Jesus for His own sake, and not for the sake of comfort for themselves, bless Him in every trial and anguish of heart, no less than in the greatest joy.' Be cross-bearers, then. These are the true followers."

from Reliving the Passion
by Walter Wangerin, Jr.