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“Follow me” is an invitation that changes everything when a person puts their faith in Jesus. The broken become whole, the weak become powerful, and the ordinary life becomes astonishing in the hands of God. Following Jesus is to know the One who makes the impossible possible. Walking the narrow road is the invitation to the greatest adventure of your life.

The authority of Jesus is a source of comfort and strength to those who are walking the narrow road. Each person enters the narrow gate in submission to Jesus as Lord and that submission continues throughout our lives as we walk the path. The first signpost on the narrow road is addressing the importance of Jesus’ authority in our lives.

If you stopped to ask for directions what would your reaction be if the person responded saying it doesn’t matter because all roads will get you there. Common sense tells us that this is impossible yet this is the belief many have when it comes to God. When someone says “all roads lead to heaven” they are saying that all religious beliefs are equal and lead to the same end. But this does not adhere to Jesus’ teaching that there is a narrow gate and road. But what does this road look like? What are the markers that provide us as travelers the assurance that we are on the narrow road that Jesus calls us to walk? During this series we will identify the landmarks of the narrow road to build confidence that we have found and are walking in the direction that Jesus calls us to go.

Jesus was asked to sum up the entire Old Testament when asked what is the requirement for eternal life. Love God with everything we have and our neighbor. But He did not stop there but defined loving our neighbor. Through a simple parable we discover how God has called us to love one another and the intentional shifts that make it possible.

Every person has placed within them the longing to know their life has a purpose. The world offers many avenues to seek out a purpose but each of them is temporary. God designed the church as the avenue for us to live out the purpose that resonates throughout all eternity. Through the mission of God and His Church, we are invited to be a community with purpose.

One of the enemy’s best strategies is to make the church forget that we are in a serious war. We neglect to see the church as an army serving the King. By doing so we can struggle to live in our victory and power as soldiers of Christ. But we are not an army of one but an army of many. Our fellowship is one of authority and together we are called to walk in it.

Throughout Scripture, we are called to love one another as part of this community of faith. The love we are called to give is active, visible, and powerful. Within the Church, we must live out the truth that love isn’t love till we give it away to one another. #reallife is characterized as love in motion.

No matter the relationship, a core necessity for it to be healthy is trust. It is only within the atmosphere of trust that people can experience genuine, biblical community. Our honesty with one another and ourselves is what allows trust to thrive within our fellowship of faith. As we continue our #reallife sermon series we will focus on the importance of honesty and our earnest pursuit of it.

Culture today often promotes a busy life that keeps us secluded from people. As Christians, we are not called to live in disconnected silos that occasionally connect but instead in real koinonia fellowship. This level of fellowship is when people intentionally strive to create a community that involves deep close-knit participation in one another’s lives. It is more than a surface-level, friendly relationship but full, intimate unity. It is the relationships that inwardly we long for but struggle to understand and create.

There is a lot that Peter packs into this short letter to believers. He ensures there is a strong foundation about who God is, who we are as His people and the truth of what it means to live as exiles in this world. As he concludes, Peter makes sure we know the most important attribute that holds everything together as exiles for Jesus…humility.