So walk in love as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...

By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. . . .

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.