Leaving it all

Keegan Ruddy
Outside reading
Forming Intentional Disciples

In Sherry Weddell's Forming Intentional Disciples, there is a quote from the Gospel of Luke "Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men." And when they brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. (Luke 5:10-11)" (Weddell pg.65) This call to discipleship caused the original disciples of Jesus to leave everything. Now that is powerful, a call that was powerful enough to cause men to leave everything. Their jobs, homes, and entire way of life. In order to follow a man they did not necessarily know that well. They must have just felt the call from God. Yet many times we all here a call from God and can ignore as humans. These men did  not and through their acceptance and following and learning from Jesus, the Christian Church was born. The first followed Jesus, so that now all Christians can. Yet do all Christians give it all up for Jesus? We are called to not be attached to the things of this world and that is a challenge. A challenge we have an example to follow in though. Firstly the example is Jesus, who was not attached to this world. Secondly, is these disciples. They gave it all up in order to find something and learn something bigger than they could ever know or imagine. They followed Jesus and learned from Him how to change hearts. Change hearts that could then change more hearts. The trend has continued since the time of Jesus. They left it all for Jesus and to win hearts for Jesus. Christians now, must be just as bold and do the same!