Miami Beach Community Church

"Jesus - With Me, It's All Or Nothing!"Climb Every Mountain! Jesus has given us a very high mountainto climb - asking us in today's Scripture, Luke 14:25-33, to leaveeverything to follow him - loving him more than you love your " father,mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters - even more than yourown life." "If you come to me, but will not leave your family youcannot be my follower" or to say it another way, WITH ME IT'SALL OR NOTHING!I thought a little about that when finishing seminary. It wasn't likeI was going back home to Ohio - my first call was in Wisconsin, thesecond in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the third in Miami Beach Florida!My calling would keep me long distances from father, mother, brotherssisters, nieces, nephews - all. But it was the only way I could do what Iwas called to do.Jesus did not mean that we must all leave our families. He simplymeant that we must give first priority to our spiritual task - to being aperson of Spirit. You are here on this planet to grow your Spirit and to bea f