The Need for Cross-Bearing

"There is a needs-be for us to give ourselves for the life of the world.  An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.  Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing.  There are not two Christs--an easy-going one for easy-going Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers.  There is only one Christ.  Are you willing to abide in him, and thus to bear much fruit?"

(excerpt from Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor)