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The Cost Of Being A Disciple
Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity on the 7/9/25
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 2:17
Luke 14 v 25-35
The Cost of Being a Disciple
25 Large crowds were travelling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:
26 ‘If
anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children,
brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my
disciple.
27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my
disciple.
28 ‘Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and
estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
29 For if you lay
the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule
you,
30 saying, “This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.”
31 ‘Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit
down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one
coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 If he is not able, he will send a
delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
33 In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot
be my disciples.
34 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
35 It is
fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.
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By Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity on the 7/9/25
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 2:17
Luke 14 v 25-35
The Cost of Being a Disciple
25 Large crowds were travelling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:
26 ‘If
anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children,
brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my
disciple.
27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my
disciple.
28 ‘Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and
estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
29 For if you lay
the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule
you,
30 saying, “This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.”
31 ‘Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit
down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one
coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 If he is not able, he will send a
delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
33 In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot
be my disciples.
34 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
35 It is
fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.