If we want to keep company with followers of Jesus throughout the ages, we have to radically revise our imaginations and memories in order to take this in: to see sacrifice, offering, weakness, and suffering as essential, not an option, to our salvation...
Salvation: Jesus on the cross, his body and blood in the Eucharist, the bread and wine in me, Christ in me. And all of this going on every day in me and in those around me. This is the action – salvation! – at the heart of everything in creation, history, and community. This is what makes a holy world, a holy people, a holy time. There are a few who knowingly and willingly participate...1

Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus is the Way.