Christians are called to follow Jesus in death but equally in ordinary, uneventful, everyday life. Christians Devalue Everything Else When Paul says that he counts “everything as loss,” maybe you think that he doesn’t mean everything. What about the honor roll? Popularity? Comfort? Family? Friends? To Paul, that’s like comparing fruit cores to a king’s feast. They are indescribably inferior. No, that doesn’t mean all of those things are necessarily sinful or unimportant; what it means is that when they are