The Cost of Followship
In the middle of our traditional New Year’s resolutions, where does Jesus fit? Among the more popular resolutions about losing weight, eating better, exercising more (or at least a little), studying harder fixing relationships– is there room for “becoming a better follower of Jesus”? We may be hesitant to make such resolutions because it smells too much like self-help legalism. Or, we may be hesitant because we don’t like what we think that might entail. This morning let’s remove a couple thousand years of assumptions and hear the call of discipleship from the lips of the Master.