John 13:1-17:26

The issue that has been before us over the last five weeks has been Jesus call to ‘Follow Me…’.  We have looked at what it meant to the disciples as they put down their various occupations and take up literally following Jesus and how that following applies to you and I today.  We have looked at beliefs and attitudes, we have talked about activities, both in the context of the organized church and on our own and we have looked at those personal disciplines that we need in order to grow and follow.  We have talked about what it means to be saved by grace, how we can serve the church, what we can do to grow, and what it means to reach out on our own.  It is high time to look at what Jesus said about this following, what He told His disciples as He prepared them for His departure from this world and what they would need to follow without His physical presence to lead them, essentially what Jesus said that you and I would need in order to answer that same call.

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