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This is one of the simplest, but most profound and necessary truths in discipleship. Listen to Jesus: God is looking for those who are not self-dependent nor self-secure nor self-centered nor self-focused nor self-motivated nor self-agenda-ed (not a real word but hey why not) nor self-defensive. In other words to be a disciple we cannot be about self. As a …

My buddy David Nickisch asked me to present some brief ideas concerning discipleship on church Wednesday nights.  This got me thinking and I thought it would make a great blog series.  I decided to start walking through the Gospels and look at some of Jesus’ discipleship moments.  I thought I would start with the calling of the first disciples: We …