We agree that the church ought to be the followers of Jesus, but that doesn’t mean that we are all in agreement with that. There is so much disagreement in the church today about what it really means to be a follower of Jesus. In this podcast, we explore what it means to practically be a follower of Jesus.
Corinth was the host city to the Isthmian Games, where elite athletes from all over ancient Greeks speaking world gathered to compete. So Paul's analogy was particularly powerful for his Corinthian readers (9:24-27).
In a world that is more concerned about self than about committing for something or to someone larger than than self, one can easily see why following Jesus is harder than we were taught in Sunday school.