Following Christ - Part 1

Speaker 10:00

[instrumental music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 4th. Believers are called to remain close to Jesus and model their lives after Him. Today, we learn what it truly means to follow Christ.

Charles Stanley· Host0:14

Would you declare yourself to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ? And if you would, how would you define what following Jesus means when He's no longer here physically, you cannot see Him, you cannot touch Him, you cannot hear Him speak audibly? All of our life, most of us have heard that phrase, following Jesus. But I wonder how many of us really and truly know what it means to follow Christ. Now, there are a lot of people who think they're following Jesus, when in essence what they're doing is they're simply deciding the kind of lifestyle they wanna live, and they wanna make sure that there's nothing immoral or dishonest in it. And once they've made the decision, it looks good, then their idea of following Jesus is to ask God to bless what they have already decided they wanna do. That's not following Jesus. So what does it mean to follow Christ? What did it cost you to turn your life over to Him? What real difference has it made in your life since you started following Jesus Christ?