Real People, Real Church, Real City

When you follow Jesus Christ you do more than choose a different life; in a real sense, a different life chooses you. This new life leads you to take big steps and bold risks.

‌Jesus put it this way: “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it” (Luke 9:23–24). Later Jesus would look squarely at the multitudes and challenge them to “calculate the cost” of following Him (Luke 14:28–33).

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Risk comes at great cost, and not everyone is willing to pay it. Denying self, taking up crosses, and following a revolutionary figure like Jesus Christ are not natural pursuits for anyone. This kind of risk-taking requires a supernatural motivation.

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