Losing Yourself?

The directions that Jesus gave His disciples for following Him sound counterintuitive.  Losing yourself, or more specifically, losing your life, sounds like the exact opposite of the path to take.  In this section of the Gospel, Jesus was preparing to send out the disciples to the lost sheep of Israel.  What He shared with them, and the warning He passes along to us, sounds shocking but it’s important. And it comes with a remarkable promise.