Do You Despise Those God Loves?
Have you ever put your life at risk for someone you disliked? In a dog-eat-dog world, this kind of thinking is foreign to many, and it certainly felt foreign to the prophet Jonah.

Have you ever put your life at risk for someone you disliked? In a dog-eat-dog world, this kind of thinking is foreign to many, and it certainly felt foreign to the prophet Jonah.
Jesus did not sit around and wait for disciples to come to him. He went to where they were, offered them an invitation to follow him, evaluated their progress, and then selected them to be his twelve apostles.
Real discipleship isn’t always about getting together with a group of men on Friday morning for breakfast (although it certainly can be). Real discipleship takes place in the micro-decisions of life. It’s a well-timed text, encouraging phone call, and random outing together on the lake.
Four qualities of close friends.
Being like Jesus and casting to disciples is where our Christian faith starts to come alive.