Is This Really Christianity?!!

This is the first blog I've ever done and the reason I'm taking my simple words to the world via the internet is that I really need to know if I am the only one wrestling with what it means to be a Christian in America. It seems like the abundant life of love, service, and power has been traded for a comfortable and convenient Cultural Christianity. I want to know what other Christians in our country really believe it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. For me above all else it means that we are called to love Jesus Christ more passionately and intensely than anything else in our life. Jesus says we must do this if we are to be His disciples in Luke 14 and right after that He says that anyone who wants to be His disciple must take up his cross and follow Him. I may be wrong but it seems Jesus is saying that we must be like dead men and women walking. Why is it that as a young 27 year old Baptist pastor I see that most Christians (including me sometimes!) completely feel as though we can ignore these clear teachings of Christ. Let me know what you others who call yourselves disciples think. Is the cultural niceguyness that defines most Christians what we are really called to be?