Matthew 8:18-22 When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. 19 Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 21 Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Matthew 8:18 When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake.
NO EXCUSE DISCIPLES
Matthew 8:19 Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
No Excuse Discipleship is About Lordship, Not Likes
Calvary Church’s Roots
God First
People Are The Priority
Healthy Things Grow
We Get To Do This
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
God First
Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
No Excuse Discipleship is About Sacrifice, Not Stability
People Are The Priority to God, so they should be to us.
Mark 8:34-36 Then He called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
Matthew 8:21 Another disciple said to Him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
No Excuse Discipleship is About Priorities, Not Excuses
We Get To Do This
Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Missions Is Praying
Missions Is Giving
Missions Is Going
Matthew 8:22 But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
No Excuse Discipleship is About New Life, Not Dead Faith
Luke 9:60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 8:23 Then He got into the boat and his disciples followed Him.
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