Risk living by values that the world rejects.

How can we serve a Lord, the symbol of whose failure is above our altars, in top of our churches, on our stationary, and around our necks, and claim to be a stranger to failure? The power of Christ’s Passion is that every human being can identify with it, if he or she just gives it some thought. Despite our best intentions and our fervent hopes, each of us is nailed to his or her cross daily. Certainly this is true of the ordained person, who is called to be “another Christ” and to risk living by values that the world not only rejects but perceives as subversive of its goals and objectives. – Urban T. Holmes III

Note: If we are followers of Jesus, we are all called to live like Jesus, and so we are al called to “risk living by values that the world not only rejects but perceives as subversive of its goals and objectives.”