First, cruciformity helps you see, theologically. It corrects for epistemic nearsightedness or blindness. There is, in other words, proven hermeneutical value in suffering for the sake of others, not least in one’s reading of the Bible. I wouldn’t, for example, have been able to recognize the “person who stirs up division” (Tit 3:10) if I had not collided with some of these prickly characters in my own church. I would’ve never caught the force of Paul’s charge to Timothy not to let the Ephesian church