You see the awkward realities we've given ourselves to many things.

We've chosen the easy way.

We've chosen the convenient, the comfortable.

For the most part, and I'm speaking to the church, we have lived self-centered lives and

taught our children to do the same. So I'll bring you back to the invitation Jesus gave us. We read

it from Luke. Are we willing to take up our cross? Are we willing to lay down our

lives and follow Jesus? Are we willing to lay down our lives?

And follow Jesus.

spoiler alert, this is not easy.

And it wasn't easy for Jesus.

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We started a series really focused on an invitation that is consistent in scripture and one that with God's help

I want to present to you over these next few weeks. It's centered in a it's a contraction.

Let's there's multiple invitations in scripture to let us do something.

And I would submit to you that God is searching the earth for men and women who will respond to those

invitations to let us be busy about the work of the kingdom of God. You're familiar with

this. We have done let's pray and we've learned to pray in some new ways. We've done let's read and we've learned to pray in some new ways.

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