Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?
If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.
The true Christian loves his Savior with his whole heart and wants nothing to do with the sin that nailed his Redeemer to the cross.
Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.
Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.
If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.