On Leaving Everything Luke 5:11
Follower of One : Missions For The Rest Of Us
English - April 09, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 7 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Business Careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What does it take to follow Jesus. Here Peter, Andrew, James and John are called to leave everything and follow Jesus. But are we all called to leave everything? What is it about this call to these men? How can we make an application here? Is this one verse sufficient?
What about what Paul's instruction to Onesimus (Philemon 10)? Onesimus was a slave of Philemon. He apparently escaped and ended up in prison with Paul. Paul gives him a letter to take to Philemon where Paul asks Philemon to forgive Onesimus. This is a great story of redemption, but it also shows the calling of different people.
I think most of us are called to stay where we are. Mike said that was his story, too. His career took him to a number of places, but he never went to work for the church until he started Follower of One. How can this apply to us today?
Reflect on Mike's definition of ministry. You can leave your ambitions and your goals and stay in your present job as a fully-funded missionary - someone who lives on-mission with Jesus. Want to try? Head over to MarketplaceMissionTrip.com and sign up for the next Marketplace Mission Trip where you can try this out. There's a trip starting this Sunday and if you don't hear this message when it goes live, there will be other trips. Just check the dates at MarketplaceMissionTrip.com.