True Discipleship

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Anything short of complete devotion to Christ is inadequate and must end in futility and loss.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- A. W. Tozer</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There is no receiving Christ without the cross; no receiving Christianity without surrender no receiving God without full obedience.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Christianity has been watered down into a cheap inferior substitute for what God means for it to be. The idea of accepting Jesus has shifted from revolutionary attachment to an impulsive decision painless and without cost-with no concept of discipleship.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The choice for anyone who claims to be a Christian is simple. Actually there is no choice says Tozer in True Discipleship. A Christian follows Christ. There is no alternative.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The purpose of redemption was to restore mankind to its former closeness with God. The goal of every Christian must be an increasingly intimate acquaintance with Him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We must recapture the hope of His returning and that hope must lift our lives beyond the earthly. With God as our refuge and the source of our strength and our eyes on our heavenly future and the promise of Christ's coming we must yearn to please our Savior and Lord.</span></p>