“So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.’” (John 6:53-58)  We have for the last several weeks, been contemplating John 6 and the cost of discipleship.  We have seen repeatedly that it is not always easy to follow Jesus.  This week we turn to who actually pays that cost.  Again and again, Jesus repeats in the most graphic terms what he offers to us: his flesh and his blood.  In other words, he gives himself to us completely.  He holds nothing back.  There is indeed a terrible cost but it has been paid by our Lord.  That being the case, how can it be that so often, we just would like a little help from him as we go about living our lives?  How can it be that we are offended by how far into the muck of human life God is willing to go?  What if it is the case that God in Christ gives himself completely in order that you and I might be completely saved and that we might completely belong to him?  You and I do not really need just a little help now and then.  We need a Savior who is willing to die so that we may live.  That’s good news; the kind that can transform us and this sad world which God loves in such amazing ways.