All In-Hardcover
No one has ever sacrificed anything for God. If you always get back more than you gave up, have you sacrificed anything at all? The eternal reward always outweighs the temporal sacrifice. At the end of the day, our greatest regret will be whatever we didn\'t give back to God. What we didn\'t push back across the table to Him. Eternity will reveal that holding out is losing out.
The message of All In is simple: if Jesus is not Lord of all then Jesus is not Lord at all. It\'s all or nothing. It\'s now or never. Kneeling at the foot of cross of Christ and surrendering to His Lordship is a radical act of dethroning yourself and enthroning Christ as King. It\'s also an act of disowning yourself. Nothing belongs to you. Not even you.
Batterson writes, \For many years, I thought I was following Jesus. I wasn\'t. I had invited Jesus to follow me. I call it inverted Christianity. And it\'s a subtle form of selfishness that masquerades as spirituality. That\'s when I sold out and bought in. When did we start believing that the gospel is an insurance plan? It\'s a daring plan. Jesus did not die just to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.\