This Sunday evening I'm going to be preaching at an inner church movement called 10till6. Which is a play on the phrase 10 minutes till 6pm. The church is about 25min. away from where we live in a village called Maulbronn. Mom went there with us, while she was here last year. Not to the church but to the village. I'm looking foward to it. And while I'm reading so much Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Oscar Romero, the sermon has to be on the Cost of Discipleship. What it really means to say yes to Christ.
"Yes" to Christ is a necessary "no" to everything else. Anything that would threaten my devotion to the call, of the God became flesh, must be lost. It cannot be that I would first think about, whether I want to lose everything or not. It just hast to happen as a necessary response to the call. If it doesn't, then there is not a positive response to the call of Christ, which means there is not a transformed heart. Whithout these things there is no true Christianity. Check out the gospels in the bible for more info. Jesus never negotiated salvation with anyone.
It really makes one think... Good thoughts to ponder. Good thoughts to turn into action.
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