Greg Pinkner teaches from Luke 9:18-27 where Jesus asks His disciples the central question of faith—“Who do you say that I am?”—and Peter correctly confesses that Jesus is the Christ. While faith is lived in community, each person must personally answer that question and surrender to the real Jesus, not the version they want Him to be. Jesus reveals that His mission is not political conquest but suffering, rejection, death, and resurrection. To follow Him means denying ourselves daily, taking up our cross, and trusting that giving up what we cannot keep leads to receiving what we cannot lose. Christ takes away both our guilt and our shame, calling us out of darkness and into His restoring light.