We know how valuable relationships are, and how they affect everything about life. We are encouraging every person to make relationships your highest goal, your greatest aim, your first priority, and your passionate intention. Right relationships with a right starting place with a right plan and right priorities will become great relationships.

Everything for which Jesus died, shed His blood, went to the cross, the pain and suffering – everything is for people. Jesus died for people, not material things. Everything Jesus loves is in a person. Life is all about people.

No person is one-dimensional. Actually, there are three views of every individual: the view that God has of us, the opinions that others hold concerning us, and the perception we have of ourselves. Each of these views is quite important. The divine vantage point is always accurate. All other viewpoints are relative, even our own viewpoint of ourselves.

Nothing in life affects us as much as our lifetime relationships. When it’s all said and done, you will look at the value of your life relationships. A life without relationships may well be a simpler life, but it is also an empty life. As we build a life of great relationships, we must start with what Jesus says is the priority, the foundation. Love God,and know God.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

We are on a journey of moving from admirers to reproducers. As a follower, we will reproduce followers after our own kind. The Genesis 1 story shows us everything reproduces after its kind. What we are will be reproduced. Our journey has been with the admirer, inquirer, responder, follower and now the reproducer.

We move from admirers, inquirers and responders to fully devoted followers. In the last Follower message, we examined first choices, first steps of a follower. We remove the “if” and replace it with “yes,” I will follow, pick up my cross and deny myself – no excuses. Now let us look at a direct command from Jesus from Matthew 6:33.

We have taken the word “follower” and broken it down into a stereo sound of five words: admirers, inquirers, responders, followers, and reproducers. We are answering the question, “What more does God want of me?” Jesus calls, we respond. This is the fundamental principle of a dynamic spiritual life.

Pastor June Evans speaks to us about the moving of the Holy Spirit, and encourages us to be obedient to that moving.

The journey continues as we delve into following Jesus. It’s simple and at the same time so complex. Following is a life change and a lifestyle for all of life. We know what an admirer is, and we know what an Inquirers is. Now we look at responders, those who go deeper into the waters and apply deeper question, “What more does God want of me?”