You can't be serious

"So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:33)

This is one of those passages (verses 25-33) that obviously can't be taken at face value. I mean, certainly we must understand that what Jesus was saying had many layers of meaning. Simply reading his words and accepting their denotation is far too simplistic an approach to scripture. Jesus didn't even speak english, so we really must take passages of like this and place them in the larger context of his life. You know, enduring the cross and despising the shame. Oh, wait.