Does attending a church service change you? No. It is up to you to decide to apply what you have read and heard and learned. The kind of "Follow Me" covered in this passage requires more than outward actions. It requires inward change. Are you willing to deny self, walk away from everything, take up your cross daily, and follow Jesus? If so, you now have an eternal perspective and nothing can rob your joy!
And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. ~ Luke 5:27-28