The Way of Sacrifice

Another season of Lent, another 40 days living with Grunewald's altar piece.

The path of discipleship is one of offering ourselves as living sacrifices to the sacrificed Saviour. Sacrifice is a choice:
> a choice made by the Saviour who humbled himself, learning obedience even to death on a cross;
> a choice made by the Father who received the sacrificial offering made by his one-of-a-kind Son;
and now,
> a choice made by those who would follow the way of sacrifice, follow the way of the Christ.

Our world knows little of freely made self-sacrifice. Lent is not the way of the world, but the way of sacrifice.