Click Now to Order
FOLLOWING CHRIST
In their book, "The Insider", Peterson & Shamy
write "But what about the rest of his disciples? For them, his
instructions were more that opposite. After he cured the man possessed by
multiple demons, he told him, "Go home to your family and tell them how
much the Lord has done for you." We somehow find the idea of dropping
everything to follow Jesus more romantic than that of our taking him back home
with us. But as a rule, we are called to follow him back into our own
communities."
—"The Insider", p. 58. Illustration by Jim L.
Wilson
Matthew 28:18-20 (BBE) [18] And Jesus came to them and said,
All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. [19] Go then, and
make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: [20] Teaching them to keep all
the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end
of the world.
|