The 5 Minute Discipleship Podcast

#500: The Call to Follow Jesus

• Loren Hicks

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The Big Idea: 

The same call to follow Jesus has been given to you and me. We are not just called to salvation, we are called to live the life of a disciple, a follower of Christ. In this following we learn and grow and are changed. In the following, we too are able to fulfill our purpose.


Main Points:

1. Jesus tells us that if our desire is to serve God, we must follow him. What happens when we follow? Well, we relinquish control of the direction. We allow the other person to set the course and the direction. Following is an act of surrender. We yield the leadership to another. We submit to their leadership. We simply follow.
2. Jesus did not instruct his followers to go and make “Christians,” he commanded them to make disciples.
3. The original twelve disciples didn’t just believe in Jesus, meaning they didn’t just have a mental agreement that He was the Messiah. No, they believed so much that they followed him. Their faith changed their lives. And so it does today.


Today’s Scripture Verses:

John 12:26 - “If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”

Matthew 10:38 - "“And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.”

Matthew 28:19-20 - “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”


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