No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.

If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.