Seguir a Jesus
Seguir a Jesus é o convite mais transformador da Bíblia. Jesus chamou pescadores, cobradores de impostos e pessoas comuns para deixar tudo e segui-lo. Esse chamado continua vivo hoje.
O chamado de Jesus
Jesus disse: 'Segue-me'. Esse convite simples e poderoso mudou a vida de pescadores, publicanos e pessoas comuns ao longo da história.
And He says to them, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." So leaving the nets immediately they followed Him.
Matthew called
And going on from there Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He says to him, "Follow me." So getting up he followed Him.
Nathanael
The next day He decided to go to Galilee, so He finds Philip and says to him, "Follow me."
The cost of discipleship
Now as they journeyed on the road, it happened that someone said to Him, "Lord, I will follow you wherever you go." So Jesus said to him, "The foxes have dens and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of the Man has no place to lay His head."
Then He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God."
And another also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house." But Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to ‘the plow’ and looks back is suitable for the Kingdom of God."
O custo do discipulado
Seguir a Jesus exige renúncia. É preciso tomar a cruz diariamente, deixar tudo para trás e amar a Cristo acima de qualquer outro vínculo.
How to save your life
Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone desires to come after me, let him really deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
It pays to serve Jesus
Then Peter began to say to Him, "So, we have left all and followed you." In answer Jesus said: "I tell you assuredly, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for my sake and for that of the Gospel, who will not receive a hundred times more, now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and father and mother and children and fields (with persecutions)—and in the age to come, eternal life. But many first will be last, and last first."
Caminhar com Cristo
Quem segue a Jesus não anda em trevas, mas tem a luz da vida. Ele nos convida a crescer nele e a servir como Ele serviu.
Jesus dialogs with the Pharisees
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: "I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk around in the darkness, but will have the light of the Life."
If anyone would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, my servant will be too. Further, if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
rather, speaking the truth in love, let us in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, the Christ;