In this closing message of a five-week sermon series called "Book Club," Pastor Bernard draws on Dr. Nicole Massey-Martin's book "Nailing It: Why Successful Leadership Demands Suffering and Surrender" alongside Luke 9:23-24 to challenge believers to crucify their worldly hustle and embrace a Christ-centered model of leadership and living. The sermon argues that modern culture's obsession with hustle, ambition, performance, and self-sufficiency is ultimately an attempt to save ourselves -- something only Christ can do. True discipleship, the pastor explains, requires a daily three-step process of self-denial, cross-bearing, and actively following Jesus. This kind of redemptive leadership mirrors Christ's own suffering and surrender, and it is only through dying to self that believers can fully live, lead, and love as God intends. The sermon calls Christians in every sphere of life -- corporate, educational, familial, and ministerial -- to recognize themselves as leaders called to season and illuminate a dark world, not through grit alone, but through God's grace.