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 said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of people." And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Matthew Called to Follow Jesus
And as Jesus was going away from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth and said to him, "Follow me!" And he stood up and followed him.
Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael
On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me!"
Would-be Followers
And as they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go!" And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." And he said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, first allow me to go and bury my father." But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God." And another person also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house." But Jesus said, "No one who puts his hand on the plow and looks back is fit 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.
Taking Up One’s Cross to Follow Jesus
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
Peter began to say to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you." Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields on account of me and on account of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the 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, the Light of the World
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,who when he was reviled, did not revile in return; when suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly,
But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him with reference to all things, who is the head, Christ,
You must carry out my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.
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