Found my devotional very interesting this morning.

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From: Circuit Riders <newbeginningscrmm@yahoo.com>
To: Ray Moore <Redbeard@circuitriderscfm.org>, Doug Girouard <dgirouard4@yahoo.com>, Calvin Tucker <bikerpastorpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: Terry Bunch <tbunch7193@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 14:27:48 GMT+00:00
Subject: Found my devotional very interesting this morning.

 

What Lack I Yet?

What lack I yet?
Matthew 19:20.

The rich young ruler had morals, manners and money. He would be welcomed readily into many churches today, with no questions asked. He would make a good "joiner," but he would be a poor disciple.

Salvation is free but discipleship costs everything. Somehow, we have utterly lost sight of our Saviour's drastic and often severe challenges to prospective disciples. Letting the dead bury the dead, denying self, hating loved ones, putting the hand to the plow—He used terms that demanded absolute obedience and unquestionable loyalty. Today we have tempered all this down and removed its sharp edge and have gathered a host of indifferent "joiners" who have not the faintest idea of what it means to "sell out" for Christ.

Jesus lost this prospect. The young man went away. Why didn't our Lord take him on milder terms and later lead him into complete surrender? That is our techniques today, but Jesus was out for disciples, not "joiners."

"What lack I yet?" Here is the painful lack in our churches, because it is the lack of so many of their members.

 

"Baytown" Wayne Anderson
SE TX Regional Rep
Circuit Riders M/M
President
New Beginnings Chapter
Mont Belvieu, TX
newbeginningscrmm@yahoo.com
mobile: 713.402.8982