Count the Cost (Luke 14:28-33)

"The gospel is the official proclaimation that Christ died for us and is risen again, with the added announcement that everyone who will believe, and as a result of that belief cast his lot with Christ in full and final committal, shall be saved eternally. He must come with the understanding that he will not be popular and that he will be called to stand where Jesus stood before the world: to be admired by many, loved by a few, and rejected at last by the majority of men. He must be willing to pay this price; or let him go his way; Christ has nothing more to say to him now." ~A.W. Tozer