As long as Jesus was giving, blessing, forgiving - 

Oh how he was the toast of the town!

Everyone loved him and followed him around

But as soon as he required something in return,

As soon as he told them "follow me or burn"

As soon as he said "Sell all you have and give it away"

they quit listening to what he had to say...

And what about his "followers" today?

Have we not created a Christianity  of comfort, carnality and leisure?

Where we've replaced suffering with pleasure?

After all, Jesus suffered so we don't have to.

He died that bloody death,

to give  us an abundance of things and money that we might have happiness. 

"They that shall live godly lives in Christ Jesus shall suffer"

has been amended to read

 "They that will follow Jesus will never suffer or bleed"

and yet every single Apostle suffered tremendously-

gladly, joyfully, enduring pain and shame,

all for the glory of THE GREATEST NAME.

O my people!  Hear my plea!

Let us all return to true Christianity!

Let us be willing to suffer indignities,

even pain, even death,

That we might awaken and rescue many, many more

with the power of his anointed breath,

in us and upon us.

He died for us -

CAN WE, FOR HIM, DO NO LESS?