Choosing Faith: The Cost of Discipleship

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1. "Our culture says the greatest thing we have need of right now is tolerance...that there is no absolute truth...friends can I tell you that just is anti-bible period...there is truth, his name is Jesus."

2. "They were stuck and because they were stuck because they were stagnant because they were in the same spot for so long it became contagious."

3. "That on the fence mentality, it's contagious. It makes other people say, 'Oh okay, I'm supposed to be like that, okay I'm in.'"

4. "Our on the fence mentality is so contagious that it'll bleed over to the people around us... we fail to realize that we live in the structure of a community of people who supposedly love Jesus and love each other."

5. "I choose to stay here. It is better to be sacrificed to God than to be eaten by a wolf."

6. "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."

7. "The choice is up to you... imagine with me that you come to church on a Sunday and see your longtime neighbor and friend... you've known them for years but you've never invited them to church."

8. "Part of me would be happy because my friend Ken's here, the other part of me would be going man, I wonder if I would have asked Ken a few years ago if maybe some of the struggles he's been going through he wouldn't have had to go through alone because he's developing relationships within a community of Believers."

9. "This cancer allows members to believe that the Christian walk has no personal cost to them and that the life of Christianity has no personal cost to them."

10. "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. But when you're committed to do something, you accept no excuses, only results."
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