Are You Making Micro Sacrifices to God?

In the new testament, there's this weird idea that you have to identify with a person who continually dies and is reborn. For modern people it's more like an idea. You have to sacrifice an idea that you hold dear in order to progress. The phoenix dissolves itself into ashes and then pops back up as as a new bird. And if you make those sorts of micro sacrifices, then god stays pleased with you.