“If you have a Jesus you like, you have the wrong one.”
Bill Dogterom

• “I am the bread of life… unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:48, 53)

On family and belonging

• “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37)

• “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26)

• “Let the dead bury their own dead” (to a man who wanted to bury his father first) (Matthew 8:22)

On self-surrender

• “Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it” (Matthew 16:25)

• “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (John 12:24)

• “Take up your cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23)

On judgment and self-righteousness

• “Do not judge, or you too will be judged” (Matthew 7:1)

• “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

• “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone” (John 8:7)

On status and power

• “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant” (Matthew 20:26)

• “The first will be last, and the last will be first” (Matthew 20:16)

• “Whoever wants to be first must be slave of all” (Mark 10:44)

On worry and control

• “Do not worry about your life… Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (Matthew 6:25-27)

• “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matthew 6:33)