Keystone Nazarene Church
Making Christlike Disciples in Okinawa
Today’s Message: Taking Your Cross
Main Idea: Jesus invites us to die to the lives we know to follow Him.
Lent
- 40 days of reflection, repentance and fasting leading to Easter,
- to remember Jesus' death and resurrection
- and let God make us more like him
Today’s Message: Taking Your Cross
Main Idea: Jesus invites us to die to the lives we know to follow Him.
Mark 8:31-38 NIV
Taking Your Cross
1. The Way of the Master (v.31-33)
2. Discipleship Means sacrifice (v.32-34)
3. Death Leads to Life (v.35-38)
Mark 8:31 NIV
The Way of the Master
Discipleship means to follow the Master.
Mark 8:32-33 NIV
The Way of the Master
Discipleship is trusting Jesus’ way even when it does not make sense.
Mark 8:34 NIV
Discipleship Means Sacrifice
To follow Jesus is no less than to die to other competing things in life.
Discipleship Means Sacrifice
This is God’s way of love.
Mark 8:35 NIV
Death Leads to Life
Unexpected reversal: Dying to competing things in order to follow Jesus leads to life.
Mark 8:36-37 NIV
Death Leads to Life
What is greater, your soul or your stuff?
Death Leads to Life
Don’t be ashamed of Jesus.
Mark 8:38 NIV
Is Jesus worth it?
My Everything - Tim Hughes
God in my living
There in my breathing
God in my waking
God in my sleeping
God in my resting
There in my working
God in my thinking
God in my speaking
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
God in my hoping
There in my dreaming
God in my watching
God in my waiting
God in my laughing
There in my weeping
God in my hurting
God in my healing
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Christ in me,
Christ in me,
Christ in me
the hope of glory
Be my everything
Christ in me,
Christ in me,
Christ in me
the hope of glory
You are everything
This Week's Memory Verse:
Mark 8:34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.