Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, September 18th.

When you were a kid, did your parents ever tell you that you needed an attitude adjustment?

Turns out disciples of Jesus need that too.

Here's more on today's InTouch Podcast.

Now when you examine the Scriptures, it is interesting to notice that every single passage

own discipleship with no exception demands the disciples' detachment from something.

Now by detachment I simply mean what the dictionary means by detachment.

That is a severing of relationship, a parting, a disentanglement with something, the separation of something.

Disengaging yourself from something or someone.

Detachment is found in every single passage where discipleship is mentioned.

And we noticed in this very chapter here, in the 23rd and 24th verse, and it's interesting also to notice

that each time Jesus began to talk about detachment in discipleship that his casualty list just skyrocketed.

I mean the dropout list was absolutely unbelievable.

In the 6th chapter of John, when he began to talk about detachment from the world system, what happened?

The Scripture says so many of those who were following him left him that he finally turned to his apostles and said,

are you going to leave me also?

When the rich young ruler came to Jesus asking him for the way to eternal life, Jesus said to him,

if you really want what you're asking, then you must be willing to detach yourself from the riches you have,

give them to the poor, and then come follow me.

And the Scripture says he was sorrowful and walked away, still attached to those things that were separating him from the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

In 2nd Timothy chapter 4, verse 10, Paul referring to a disciple of our Lord said,

for a deemous, half forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed at Thessalonica.

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