The Calling is Not Comfortable

Follow Along with the Message

Jesus asks that disciples give up the illusion of control and self-preservation to follow Him. American Christianity has tamed the cross. We’ve lost some of the barbarity and terror of the cross.

Jesus is being completely honest with His followers: Following Me isn’t going to be comfortable.

The call to follow Christ is a call to…

1.  Growing  in Your .

Suburban life can become very homogenous.

Taking up our cross is a call not to be more comfortable, but to allow God to make us uncomfortable as we grow in likeness to His Son.

Comfort-seeking is our default mode in a consumerist society, so we often find ourselves living in “comfortable Christianity” without even knowing it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.”