When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back. "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages," he cried. To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."
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Bonhoeffer once said that the call to discipleship is a call to come and die - die to ourselves, our ambitions, our way.
In a very real sense, the first thing we do as Christians is die. We lose our lives and take up the cross. We no longer live for ourselves (2 Cor. 5:14-15).
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