Why Exactly Am I Following and What Happens When I Do?

So, remember how I said in the last podcast that Jesus wants you to follow him more than you could ever want. And that all you need is faith the size of a tiny mustard seed for Jesus to take you by the hand and get you started down the road? Well, three things. One, the road is long. And two, it’s rough and full of obstacles. Which means, three, you can’t go it alone. You can’t rely on yourself, you can’t rely on positive thinking, and you can’t rely on religion. You’re following a person who’s bigger than any personal or even corporate system of beliefs. Following Jesus is more than just believing or having faith that he exists and that he’s God. It’s about being in relationship with him. It’s about being in relationship with a person who’s all about transformation. Jesus is all about transforming you and all of creation from brokenness to wholeness—if you let him. And if you do let him, he’ll work in you like he’s working in the world. In fact, he wants to work through you and he invites you to partner with him in creating patterns of forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice-making in a broken world full of broken people. Yes, you, he wants you to be his hands and feet. And to do that you’ll need more than just to believe that what I’m telling you is true. You’ll have to put that belief in action.

I hope you’re catching on that this is a whole different way of looking at what it means to be a Christian—to be a disciple. It’s definitely not just about going to church on Sunday. And it’s definitely not just about believing—well at least, not how we typically think of believing. Whoa! What am I talking about? Don’t Christians believe in Jesus? Yes, they do, but believing is much more than something that goes on in the private spaces of your head.

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