“Giving ourselves to Christ’s service, at the cost of serving our own plans for ourselves, whatever their source and whatever their merit, is the response of faith and the cost of discipleship…It is about giving away our lives so we can secure them for eternity…The collective testimony of the saints who have gone before is is that Jesus did not lie about the way to let life slip away and the way to find life and keep it forever.”
David A. DeSilva in Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation through the Book of Common Prayer (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2000) 192.