The Christ-Like Journey – Jesus Left Home: Perspectives Pastors Podcast, Season 2, Episode 43

The female pastors of First United Methodist Church of San Diego continue the conversation about the radical cost of Christian discipleship – this time by looking at how Jesus calls people to leave behind their families, livelihood, and comforts to follow him. It’s a conversation inspired by Luke 9:56-62.

Rev. Hannah and Rev. Brittany break down the scripture verse by verse with this digital Bible study with goal of better understanding what Jesus risked when he left the comforts of his family home. Some of the radical demands of discipleship that they observe include:

• Deprioritizing your own creature comforts and your familial and cultural obligations.
• Letting go of social, family, and religious traditions of the past to look toward a new future and way of life.
• Stopping the seeking and following of safe, predictable paths and instead living in the moment.
• Looking for the messiest places on Earth, disrupting with transformative love, and letting go of prosperity theologies.

There is a lot more to say about leaving home and comforts to embark into the unknown. You can keep the conversation going by joining our weekly in-person Convergence discussion group or heading over to our Patreon channel to discuss the following questions with others:

1. How do our homes (spiritual or physical) create safe spaces for us thrive and/or comforts that hold us back?
2. How has Christ’s radical demand of discipleship changed your life?
3. As a disciple of Jesus Christ, are you prepared to face rejection and/or persecution?

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