Listen to the Message
Mark 1:16-18
Positive Relationships + Proper Environment = Spiritual Growth.
Jesus is accessible to everyone .
Jesus who can't be defined by others .
Jesus is focused, driven, and task-oriented.
He had been connected to the ministry of John the Baptist
We can know Him only casually from a distance.
We can know Him only slightly through books.
We really get to know Him by following Him.
1. What It Means to Follow
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Jesus is making it clear that the life of discipleship is not a life of
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just thinking and knowing and discussing ideological principles, it's a life of living them out.
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My point is that we need to stand in evaluation of ourselves.
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It means that we have absolutely no room for arrogance or condescension, no room for pride or self-righteousness, no room for an unforgiving spirit.
2. How Your Life Can Have Meaning.
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All things being equal, wouldn't you rather have a job with significance than one without?
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He told them instead of fishing for fish, they could be fishing for men.
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Your won't spend your life merely supporting the local economy, you'll invest your life building the world's community.
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Follow me, and your life will go from mediocrity to meaning.
3. Begin today, right where you are.
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At once.
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Don't wait till you're perfect or your circumstances are perfect — they never will be.
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He calls us to follow Him now .
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He wants you to encounter Him, to know Him, to experience Him, to become like Him.
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Make an effort to experience His presence and fullness.
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."