Our Response: How to Surrender Everything (Kerygma Part 5)

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What does it mean to really follow Jesus? Being a serious Catholic involves much more than just following set rules or believing the dogmas of the Church. Dr. Edward Sri explains that being in relationship with Jesus is at the heart of being Catholic. Jesus is inviting each one of us to an intimate relationship with him, to follow him. How do we respond? How do we surrender everything and follow him?

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The same Jesus who walked the streets of Galilee loves you and desires a personal relationship with you.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:07.0	What does it mean to really follow Jesus? Not just on the outside, like someone saying
0:19.1	I go to church, I believe all the teachings, I say some prayers, I try to be a good person know what's happening on the
0:24.2	inside. You see being a serious Catholic involves realizing that at the heart
0:29.9	of our Catholic faith isn't just a bunch of moral rules and doctrines and liturgical
0:36.5	practices at the very heart is a relationship. It's a friendship with Jesus and
0:42.3	Jesus is longing for us to enter deeply in friendship with him.
0:47.0	He doesn't just want us to learn more about him.
0:50.0	He wants us to know him.
0:52.0	To know him in a deep friendship that changes everything about our lives.
0:57.4	He's longing for that.
0:58.4	He's longing not just for my obedience, he's longing for my heart. He's longing for me not just to follow a bunch of
1:05.1	Catholic rules, he's longing for me to follow him. Now all those doctrines and
1:11.3	rules and liturgical practices and prayers are all essential for our relationship with Jesus,
1:16.3	but they're not at the very center. You see at the very center Jesus longing for me.
1:22.1	That same Jesus that walked the streets of Galilee 2,000 years ago,
1:27.2	calling Andrew and Peter and Matthew and the other original disciples, that same Jesus steps into our lives today and he
1:36.1	says the same two words he spoke to them 2,000 years ago. He's saying those same
1:41.7	words to you. He's saying, follow me. Imagine Jesus looking
1:45.6	you in the eye and saying those words, follow me. How is he inviting you to follow him today? What's the area in your life that he's
1:56.2	inviting you to give to him more and to follow him? How do we respond to this call?
2:00.5	That's what we're going to take a look at in this week's podcast. So
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