What Makes Life Worthwhile?

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple ... whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be My disciple
Scripture

Luke 14:27,33
Luke 14:25-33

Sermon Topic

Discipleship,

In a moving scene from “The River,” Jean Renoir’s beautiful film of India, a crippled American soldier is outraged over the cross he has been given to bear. In his anguish, he asks a Hindu woman if there is anything he can do to make life worthwhile. She replies in a single word: “Consent!” In other words, “Be!”

That is what Jesus is telling us in today’s Gospel Lesson: “Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple … whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be My disciple” (Lk. 14:27,33). If you want to be the uniquely beautiful person God made you to be, then renounce your ego-centered,…

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