What does it mean to be a follower? On social media, you can follow famous people or

popular causes. But why do we do that? What is the psychology of who or what we follow?

And what might it mean to be a follower of Jesus? That's today. Stay with me.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chipping Room. The mission of these

daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible

teaching of Chipping Room. And we're in the middle of his newest series, The Four Great

Invitations. Well, today, Chip will be in a couple of places in the Gospel of

Luke, emphasizing what it looks like to walk in Jesus footsteps. Well, there's a

lot of insightful content to get to. So get your Bible ready as Chipy Yens is

messaged by highlighting Jesus' next challenging invitation. Follow me. When I was

thinking about following, one thing that came to my mind was we all follow

something or someone. In fact, if I ask you, who do you follow on social media?

You could give me some names, right? Or who's a celebrity you follow? Or who's an

author that you follow? Or maybe there's a business person or a musician or an

artist that you follow them. Now, let me ask you why. If I literally had you

jot down the reasons that I follow these certain people is because, let me

suggest you want to be like them. You admire them. They've blazed a trail that

you think you could learn from them. But everybody follows something or someone.

In fact, there's a subtle one. Many of us follow what psychologists call a

script. A script that happened over our family of origin and our growing up years.

And the script developed where no one said you're supposed to live your life like

this, but it kind of went like, in my case, you need to work really, really hard,

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