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IMAGINE JESUS...Alive Every Day
We are always looking for SHORTCUTS to the EASY LIFE; Jesus is always inviting us into the CHALLENGE of following him, of losing our comfort to find the GOOD LIFE! We do that by COMMITTING to living by HIS PRIORITIES and PRINCIPLES: Loving Our Enemies, Peacemaking that disrupts the Status Quo, and ultimately through Scorn, Stigma and Martyrdom.
The COST of following Jesus is imensense, but the reward is a LIFE FULL OF GOODNESS. He REQUIRES LOYALTY from us that transcends all other relationships, including (and maybe especially) our FAMILIES…if we withhold areas of our lives from Jesus we will never find the fullness of life he offers and ultimately will be unable to walk through the challenging doors of discipleship that come with alienation and persecution, we will never be able to stand up to our friends or family, let alone the POWERS and PRINCIPALITIES that are opposed to the Rule of The KING…JESUS!
"To agree to follow Jesus is to sign away all rights to a quiet life of self-determination…But the way to peace is not the way of avoidance of conflict, and Jesus will be continuously engaged in robust controversy…their mission to establish God's peaceful rule can be accomplished only by sharing his experience of conflict." - R T France
32 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law
36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not WORTHY of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 Whoever does not take up their CROSS and follow me is not WORTHY of me.
39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. - Matthew 10:32-39
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We are always looking for SHORTCUTS to the EASY LIFE; Jesus is always inviting us into the CHALLENGE of following him, of losing our comfort to find the GOOD LIFE! We do that by COMMITTING to living by HIS PRIORITIES and PRINCIPLES: Loving Our Enemies, Peacemaking that disrupts the Status Quo, and ultimately through Scorn, Stigma and Martyrdom.
The COST of following Jesus is imensense, but the reward is a LIFE FULL OF GOODNESS. He REQUIRES LOYALTY from us that transcends all other relationships, including (and maybe especially) our FAMILIES…if we withhold areas of our lives from Jesus we will never find the fullness of life he offers and ultimately will be unable to walk through the challenging doors of discipleship that come with alienation and persecution, we will never be able to stand up to our friends or family, let alone the POWERS and PRINCIPALITIES that are opposed to the Rule of The KING…JESUS!
"To agree to follow Jesus is to sign away all rights to a quiet life of self-determination…But the way to peace is not the way of avoidance of conflict, and Jesus will be continuously engaged in robust controversy…their mission to establish God's peaceful rule can be accomplished only by sharing his experience of conflict." - R T France
32 “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to turn
“‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law
36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not WORTHY of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 Whoever does not take up their CROSS and follow me is not WORTHY of me.
39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. - Matthew 10:32-39