What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?
By David Platt
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What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? builds on the message of Follow Me to motivate readers to experience our grand purpose: to exalt the glory of God by spreading Christ’s gospel—to make disciples who are making disciples. This booklet is a great resource to share with others to discuss crucial faith questions in a personal and grace-filled manner and engage others to be disciple-makers in obedience to Jesus. Ideal for small groups or personal and mass evangelism.
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What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? - David Platt
Introduction
W
HEN
J
ESUS WALKED
along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he called to four fishermen, Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Peter, Andrew, James, and John dropped their nets and followed him. Their lives—and indeed, the whole world—were never the same.
But Jesus’ call to follow him was not for them alone. His call has also come to each of us: Will you follow him?
This call to follow Jesus is not one we can easily ignore. It can be tempting in the midst of our busy lives to set it aside, to shrug off the claims that Jesus made, and to go about with business as usual. It can be equally tempting to look at what we see as the failures of those who have claimed Jesus’ name or at our past experiences and assume that we’ve already evaluated all there is to know about Jesus. Been there, done that.
But the nature of Jesus’ claims and his invitation to follow him demand our full attention. Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to [God] the Father except through me.
Peter, one of the four fishermen Jesus called, later said of Jesus, Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
Jesus did not claim to be one dish on the buffet line of spirituality from which we can pick and choose the elements that best suit our taste. And if his claims are true, then his call demands everything, and we have no other choice—like those fishermen before us—but to drop everything and follow him.
In this booklet, I aim to set before you what it means to follow Jesus. What is his call? What does it cost? And what does a life of following Jesus entail? These questions deserve careful consideration.
Ultimately the call to follow Jesus is a call to die—to die to ourselves and to die to the things of this world. But at the same time, it is a call to live—to experience unbridled joy as