IT'S MORE THAN MEMBERSHIP (7 OF 8)
by William Wyne
Scripture: John 21:15-17
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It's More Than Membership (7 of 8)
Series: Membership
William Wyne
John 21: 15-17
To be Christ's disciple demands that you settle some specific questions as it relates to following him. A faithful follower of God must settle various questions if they want to follow Christ. A follower of Christ must settle going where He wants you to go and doing what He wants you to do. Jonah is a witness that when you follow God and He sends you to the place that He wants you to go, but you choose to go in the opposite direction you just may end up in a place that you do not want to be.
A follower of God must also learn to settle the issue of endurance, patience. God does what He wants to on His own time and on His terms. When you follow God and decide that God is moving to slow, so you get ahead of God, you discover that you then just must stop and wait on God. Ask Abraham about that - you think you are getting ahead of God, you discover that God will still make you wait.
But perhaps the greatest issue of that one has to settle and answer is this one we have in John 21, it's the question that Christ presented to Peter in this text: Peter do you love me? That is a question that anyone who believes and decides to follow Christ must answer, do you love me? Because how you answer that question determines the depth of your discipleship and the destiny of that discipleship.
This question comes to Peter at a time when he maybe be at his lowest ebb in life. He knows what he has done as it relates to denying Christ. He knows that he has not lived up to his own promises that he made to Christ. He is perhaps not feeling worthy of being a follower, of being a disciple.
You know sometimes life can make you feel unworthy, unfit, sometimes your personal failures can make you believe that life has place a period in your life. Sometimes your shortcomings in life will place more question marks that exclamation points. If you are not careful, failures, promises that you could n ...
Series: Membership
William Wyne
John 21: 15-17
To be Christ's disciple demands that you settle some specific questions as it relates to following him. A faithful follower of God must settle various questions if they want to follow Christ. A follower of Christ must settle going where He wants you to go and doing what He wants you to do. Jonah is a witness that when you follow God and He sends you to the place that He wants you to go, but you choose to go in the opposite direction you just may end up in a place that you do not want to be.
A follower of God must also learn to settle the issue of endurance, patience. God does what He wants to on His own time and on His terms. When you follow God and decide that God is moving to slow, so you get ahead of God, you discover that you then just must stop and wait on God. Ask Abraham about that - you think you are getting ahead of God, you discover that God will still make you wait.
But perhaps the greatest issue of that one has to settle and answer is this one we have in John 21, it's the question that Christ presented to Peter in this text: Peter do you love me? That is a question that anyone who believes and decides to follow Christ must answer, do you love me? Because how you answer that question determines the depth of your discipleship and the destiny of that discipleship.
This question comes to Peter at a time when he maybe be at his lowest ebb in life. He knows what he has done as it relates to denying Christ. He knows that he has not lived up to his own promises that he made to Christ. He is perhaps not feeling worthy of being a follower, of being a disciple.
You know sometimes life can make you feel unworthy, unfit, sometimes your personal failures can make you believe that life has place a period in your life. Sometimes your shortcomings in life will place more question marks that exclamation points. If you are not careful, failures, promises that you could n ...
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