Hey everybody, welcome to your move where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.

I'm Andy Stanley and I'll be your guide.

Now here's something most of us have in common.

I think we all have a tendency to think that we don't really care what other people think about us, but actually we do.

In fact, the truth is we are constantly comparing ourselves to other people, right?

And it's exhausting. It fuels discontentment.

It's a bit like running a race without a finish line.

So let's be finished with that.

And today, I'll tell you how, right here on your move.

Today, we're in part two of our series we launched last time we were together, icon, the empowering

invitation of the cross. The cross, you knew this before you got here, before you tuned in,

the cross is the icon for Christianity. For most modern Christians, the cross basically, you know,

represents a way of believing. But in the first century, the cross

represented something else. It represented a way of living, a lifestyle. And the cross was actually

an invitation, an invitation to an alternative way of life, alternative, but not intuitive.

In fact, to outsiders looking in at this different way of living,

in fact, maybe to you looking out from the outside into this different way of living.

It just seems foolish. In fact, the author of half the New Testament, that's the word he's going to use.

We're going to look at it in just a minute. He says, from the outside looking in, the invitation of the cross, the way of the cross, the way of Jesus.

It is foolish. It's crazy. In fact, you might even chalk it off as lazy, because it's an

invitation that's so contrary to our nature that we are tempted to decline the invitation,

as we said last time, every single day. Because every single day, if you are a Jesus follower,

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