Tempted to Make Christianity Painless

"The world so entirely addicted to the pleasures of the moment is so alluring that we are tempted to let go of basic truths of the Bible in the interest of getting people to listen to any of it. We are tempted to make Christianity easy, painless, merely entertaining. For we fear that the call to the cross will put people off, offend them, send them running in the opposite direction." Daniel Deutschlander, "Theology of the Cross", page 73