Scripture
Matthew 4:17
Matthew 4:12-23 or 4:12-17
Sermon Week/Year
Sermon Topic
From the very beginning Jesus clearly stated that His call to us to follow Him and His appeal to us to transform our lives are inseparable. To follow Jesus is to change your life, necessarily. You cannot be the person He wants you to be apart from Him. To be a follower of Jesus you must let go of everything you have crowded in at the center of your life that is not God-centered. “Reform your lives!” are the first three words Jesus speaks as He begins His public ministry. This is not a once-in-a-lifetime transformation Jesus is calling for. It is an ongoing, continuing change, a process of growth and development that stretches out over your entire life.
Many people-most people, perhaps-really fear change. It’s too risky for them ever to think about altering the status quo. That includes many of us nominal Churchgoing, outwardly pious Christians. We drift along really deceiving ourselves into the belief that we are followers of Jesus, forgetting…
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