If you were to make a list of chapters in the Bible that sum up how someone is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, John 15 would have to be at the top of that list. In it, Jesus establishes Himself as the Vine, His followers as the Branches and His Father as the Vinedresser. With this illustration, Jesus outlines the absolutely indispensable characteristics to being His disciple.
Basic Training - Our Unit: The Church
Any new recruit to the military will go through Basic Training. When it comes to following Christ, there are certain essentials that every follower needs to understand and embrace. In this series, we’ve established that Our Commander is God, Our Code is the Bible, Our Enlistment is Justification, our Boot Camp is Sanctification and now we will establish that our Unit is the Church.
Our Adoption Story
When Jesus saved us, he not only absolved us of our sins, but He adopted us into the family of God! Chris Luhrman, the CRU Campus Director at James Madison University, explains through the story of the adoption of his own daughter, what spiritual adoption requires and what it means for us as followers of Christ.
Chris Luhrman
Campus Director for Campus Crusade for Christ at JMU
Web: www.chrisluhrman.com
Twitter: @ChrisLuhrman
Christianity in Exile: Find Contentment in Eternal Rewards
We have enjoyed, as followers of Jesus, unprecedented freedom that most Christians throughout the world as well as history have never known. It would be naïve to think this unusual freedom will last forever, so how do we sustain faith in an increasingly hostile world? In the final message of this 6-week series, Pastor John will explain how important it is to find contentment in eternal rewards. Those early disciples sacrificed everything to follow Jesus, but we sacrifice so very little...for now. What is in it for them and what will be in it for us when we are expected to sacrifice for following Jesus!