TOUGH LESSONS FOR TRUE DISCIPLES: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

"What  makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness, Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus."Brennan Manning "The way to rise in the ranks of Christ is to go down. Be willing to do the meanest thing, and you are growing in Christ’s esteem. When you are great, you are little. When you are nothing, then are you great. The Lord take away from us the black drops of pride that make us stand up on our dignity, and think we must be somebody! Somebody? God will not use you as long as you are somebody; but when you are nobody, then will God greatly magnify you, and use you in his Church."TEXT: LUKE 9:46-56SONGS: RE-SURRENDER: HILLSONGI SURRENDER ALLREFINERS FIRE: BRIAN DOERKSENSEND ME: BETHEL WORSHIP