Salem Community Church

That matters because when you open up the New Testament hear me. Hear me. The earliest followers of Jesus didn't call themselves Christians. They called themselves disciples. They followed Jesus. They they, they uprooted their lives to follow him, and in a process of time, disconnect from everything they had been connected to. Disassociate themselves from everything they had been associated to. Prior to his arrival in their life, they went through a process of of making a a path away as they followed him, making a path away from the things that they used to follow. And so here's what happens is that he was forming them. He was shaping them. He was fashioning them.