Large crowds – popularity of Jesus… Celebrity? Consumer?

1st radical statement: You have to put family aside!

• division…between the disciple and family!

2nd radical statement: You have to carry a Cross...

• The example of Jesus…
• To confront and accept the possibility of rejection, loss, humiliation…

1st illustration: Constructing a tower.

• Consideration: can I afford it?
• Realisation: I can’t finish this
• Humiliation: people will see and know and ridicule him.

2nd illustration: Conflict…an army going to war

• Consideration: have I enough men?
• Realisation: perhaps I do not…
• Negotiation: let us live in peace

Conclusion: Making a commitment I can keep through to the end

• Consider: Jesus… the cost of following…
• Realise: He is the Lord of all
• Commit: a life of relationship with God