{"id":16398,"date":"2024-04-02T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/the-challenge-of-change-by-marilyn-ehle\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:01:49","slug":"the-challenge-of-change-by-marilyn-ehle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/the-challenge-of-change-by-marilyn-ehle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of Change – by Marilyn Ehle"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u201cJesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever\u2026\u201d Hebrews 13:8<\/h3>\n\n

An announcement seen in religious magazine:<\/h4>\n

Wanted:<\/strong> pastor for small church; mostly older people
but willing to reach out to younger people; no desire for change
in worship or preaching style.<\/p>\n

Do you catch the incongruity in that advertisement? The basic premise is \u201cwe want to follow Jesus but we want to do it our way<\/em>.\u201d We have a startling example of that in the followers of Jesus. When He began to reveal to His disciples that soon He would go through an unimaginable ordeal of suffering and death, Peter\u2014who only moments before had given a strong statement of faith\u2014freely offered his opinion. Peter took Him by the hand and led Him aside and then facing Him began to rebuke Him\u00a0 (Mark 8:32<\/strong><\/span> Amplified Bible). In essence Peter said,<\/p>\n

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\u201cJesus, I\u2019m sure you have the program all wrong. I know you\u2019re the Messiah and have a great plan for saving the world, but what you\u2019ve just described is too radical<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another time after Jesus preached a sermon in one of his favorite synagogues about the reality of discipleship, the Bible records, When His disciples heard this, many of them said, \u201cThis is a hard and difficult and strange saying\u2026 Who can be expected to listen to such teaching?\u201d\u2026 After this, many of His disciples returned to their old associations and no longer accompanied Him.<\/p>\n

Following hard after Jesus is committing to a life where change is the norm and not the exception. And in that change we find joy in the presence of Jesus.<\/p>\n

by Marilyn Ehle<\/a>
Used by Permission<\/p>\n\n

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