[🍬theFaithPrint.Club] When Culture Clashes with the Cross ✝️

All faith deposits✝️ Howdy, FaithPrinters— Imagine a Roman citizen in the first century reading Jesus’ words: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). They wouldn’t nod in agreement or find it poetic. They’d be shocked. Offended. Maybe even disturbed. The cross wasn’t a cute symbol back then—it was a tool of torture and execution. A public statement that Rome owned you, body and soul. So for Jesus to say, "Take up your...