08.09 Doing Life Together

08.23 The Beauty of Grace

Core Value #5: To create passionate Disciples of Christ, not converts.
We have a problem in the church today. Many people want to be followers of Christ in name only, but they aren’t too concerned with being a true disciple. There is no evidence of real life change. We like the fire insurance we get, or the “get out of hell free” card by becoming a convert to Christianity. But there is one small problem with that theology. Nowhere in the Bible does it call us to be converts. What the Bible does say however, is that we are called to be Disciples of Christ.
Being a follower of Jesus is not something we just become once we say a magical prayer. A follower of Jesus means to have a total lifestyle change. It is a whole paradigm shift in the way we think, live and behave. And, unfortunately, I think many people sitting in the pews or chairs in church today are really fooling themselves into believing that they are Christians when in fact they aren’t. Join us this week as we discover what it means to be a true disciple of Jesus rather than convert to religion.

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