Darwin Community Church

There is a dividing line between those who receive God's gift or salvation and those who reject it. Paul makes a contrast between the believers of Thessalonica and the Jews who had many opportunities to follow God but instead rejected him, hindered the prophets and would be punished in the future.

As disciples of Christ we are to invest in others and the Lord is the greatest example of how this is to be done. Paul advises Timothy to know in whom and what He believed and to guard the gospel as precious and to hold onto those things passed on to him by the Lord.

As a follower of Christ it requires commitment, sacrifice and preparation. Paul likens it to being in a race and the disciple of an athlete in order to obtain the prize.

It is easy to say that your a Christian but often another thing to live it. Jesus challenges us to carefully calculate the cost of what it means to be one of his disciples.

Many people find the Christian life an easy thing to live. Jesus shows us what it means to life the life of a disciple by taking up ones cross daily and denying self. It involves a cost and it means handing over complete control of your life. Many people are not prepare to do this. Yet this is what is commanded of all who follow Jesus.