from Matthew 4:18-22
What kind of follower are you? In an age of social media, we “follow” any number of people and organizations. Are you simply an observer, are you one who engages hoping to prove your self right, or are you one who follows until you don’t like what you hear or see at which point you are quick to “unfollow.”
Have you ever considered how who and what and the manner in which you are following in culture is impacting how you understand what it means to follow Jesus?
We can know everything we need to about stewardship and what that means for discipleship, but until we are willing to follow, until we are willing to take our first step or our next step we cannot experience the fullness of what God has for us and wants to do through us.
w/ Vern Collins
from Matthew 16:24 (and other selected passages)
w/ Lory Beth Huffman
from John 21:15-25
John ends his Gospel with this curious last sentence: “Jesus did many other things as well. If everyone of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
What is it that makes, “many other things,” possible? Work harder? Delegate more? Accomplish more? Sleepless nights? Saying, “yes,” anytime you are asked to do something? Sure, these are all possible elements to accomplishing many other things, but what if it begins by saying, “yes,” to a meal? What if it begins by saying, “yes,” to relationship with Jesus?
And what if we allow Jesus to take us deeper? What if we allow Jesus to ask more, rather than to work so hard to become what the world is suggesting we ought to be?
w/ Vern Collins and Jeff McClain
