Going All-In Mitchel Lee

Discipleship is ultimately a question of worth.

“Now great crowds accompanied him, and he

turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me

and does not hate his own father and mother and

wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes,

and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come

after me cannot be my disciple.”

Luke 14:25-27 (ESV)

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower,

does not first sit down and count the cost, whether

he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he

has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all

who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man

began to build and was not able to finish.”

Luke 14:28-30 (ESV)

“Or what king, going out to encounter another

king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate

whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him

who comes against him with twenty thousand? And

if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he

sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So

therefore, any one of you who does not renounce

all that he has cannot be my disciple.”

Luke 14:31-33(ESV)

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep

to gain what he cannot lose.”

Jim Elliot

Discipleship is a call to follow Jesus, and to

give our complete allegiance to Him.

“[Jesus] never asks for admirers, worshippers,

or adherents. No, he calls disciples. It is not

adherents of a teaching but followers of a life

Christ is looking for... ”

“At the same time – as is implied in his saving

work – he came to be the pattern, to leave

footprints for the person who would join him, who

would become a follower...”

“A follower is or strives to be what he

admires. An admirer, however, keeps himself

personally detached. He fails to see that what is

admired involves a claim upon him, and thus he

fails to be or strive to be what he admires. To want

to admire instead of to follow Christ is not

necessarily an invention by bad people. No, it is

more an invention by those who spinelessly keep

themselves detached, who keep themselves at a

safe distance.”

“Admirers are related to the admired only

through the excitement of the imagination. To

them he is like an actor on the stage except that,

this being real life, the effect he produces is

somewhat stronger. But for their part, admirers

make the same demands that are made in the

theater: to sit safe and calm. As such, they refuse

to accept that Christ’s life is a demand.”

“The admirer never makes any true sacrifices.

He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases,

songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he

prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up

nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be

what he admires, and will not let his life express

what it is he supposedly admires.”

Søren Kierkegaard

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep,

but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk

or a snooze in the sunshine.

I don’t want enough of God to make me love a black man

or pick beets with a migrant.

I want ecstasy, not transformation.

I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth.

I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack.

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

Pursue Christ

How will you increase your valuing of Jesus this year?

Perspectives

Apologetics Conference

Grace Group

Starting Point

Engage Others

Who will grow in their pursuit of Christ

as a result of God using you this year?

Men’s Ministry

GraceKids

Women’s Connections

Impact the World

Do you see what opportunity we have before us?

International Students

Laurel Woods

Go 2% BEYOND

Immigrants

Orphans

“Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making

much of ourselves but in making much of God. The

purpose of our lives transcends the country and

culture in which we live. Meaning is found in

community, not individualism; joy is found in

generosity, not materialism; and truth is found in

Christ, not universalism. Ultimately, Jesus is a

reward worth risking everything to know,

experience, and enjoy.” Platt, David, Radical