trying to find me something
but i wasn't sure just what Too many churches out there treat Jesus as the answer to any question or problem you’ve ever had and many others act like following Jesus is the most reasonable thing you could ever do. The problem with that, though, is everyone knows better. We should stop doing that. We should quit pretending the folks who don’t believe are crazy. The truth is, those folks who don’t believe might just have a little more sense than you who are here today. Following Jesus is hard. In the early church, when outsiders would do all the work of coming to the church and asking to join; do you want to know what the church, in all it’s wisdom, would do? The church would say, ‘that’s great. You can join us, anyone can. It’s going to take a year, though. The year is going to be hard, and you’re going to have to give up everything. In fact, we meet early Sunday,’ -which at that time, was a work day. That’s how the early church did evangelism. Contrary to all th...