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• Sunday Worship 13 July, 2025: In-person and online.

  Livestream for Sunday

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  This week’s theme: Discipleship

  In quiet ways, and obvious ways, God invites us to be a disciple – a follower of Christ who is willing to learn from him, be transformed by him and and follow his teachings in the world. And yet, we often find ways to ‘decline’ the invitation: we’re too busy, we’ve done a lot for the church already, we feel underqualified or think someone else could do a better job, or… we just plain don’t want to. We’ve all done it more than once as part of life and the church. But God doesn’t get offended – God simply continues to invite us again and again to serve for the glory of God alone.

  This week’s Scripture:

  Luke 9:51-62
  As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
  As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
  Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
  He said to another man, “Follow me.”
  But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
  Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
  Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”
  Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

  Questions to ask while reading the text.

  1. Why was Jesus determined to go to Jerusalem, knowing the potential dangers and suffering that awaited him there?
  2. Who were the Samaritans, and why did they refuse to welcome Jesus and his disciples?
  3. How are the responses to the Samaritans by Jesus, and by the disciples, different? What does this tell you about their character?
  4. What does it mean to “set your face” towards a goal or calling, especially in the context of following Jesus? In other words, what does this passage tell us about the cost of discipleship?
  5. How can we practically apply the lessons of this passage to our own lives and discipleship in 2025?
  6. How does this passage connect with Jesus’s teachings on the Kingdom of God?

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