Has it replaced in your life?

The following text was taken from Jaquelle Crowe’s book “Isso Muda Tudo”, future version of Editora Fiel.

I can think of some things that have changed mine, like the birth of my younger brother, for example. My first job, I moved to Texas, I found out that my grandmother had cancer, I took my first driving test. Get accepted to the university. Submit my first article to TheRebelution. com.

I know you’ve also been through a lot of life-changing moments.
Started going to a new school.
Got your first car.
Met someone famous or went to a nice place.
You know what those moments were.
From the most impressive to the useless.
We all lived those extraordinary moments that changed our point of view and.
In a way.
Also our lives.
Gave us new directions or put us on new paths.

But while these moments have left important traces in our lives, they have never completely changed us. We’re still the same people. We keep talking, we talked the same way and we believed in almost everything we believed in.

Jesus changes everything in a person’s life, both the obvious things and the ones no one sees; transforms black and white into bright colors and shakes those who sleep to wake up fully; Jesus’ disciples no longer live the same way they did before they began to follow Him. We don’t talk about the same things anymore and we don’t read the same books anymore. We don’t keep dressing or acting the same way we used to. Jesus completely renews people. It resurrects those who are spiritually dead and makes us live an exciting, beautiful and abundant life.

But that’s where we have a problem. Are there people all over the world? Celebrities on the covers of magazines, the mother who takes her son to play soccer, the person who uses the closet next to yours? That they say they follow Jesus, but that, in reality, they don’t. They claim to have a heart dedicated to the passionate search for God, but there is no change in their lives, different lives. Lives that merge, blend and shape the world. Jesus did not change anything in their lives.

And it’s a growing problem. Christian author and editor Drew Dyck once heard the following message at a youth conference: “Isn’t it hard to be a Christian?You won’t lose your friends and stop being popular at school. Nothing’s going to change, will your life be the same and even better?. Drew was surprised by that, but not the teenagers. In fact, they weren’t even paying attention. The Doritos were playing each other. It was inevitable that Drew would think: Why should they be careful?”Who cares about something that doesn’t involve adventure, sacrifice or risk?

If Jesus doesn’t change anything, they’re right. So who cares about Christianity?But the opposite is also true. If Jesus changes everything, it is worth risking everything to follow Him, and the truth is this. If he learns one thing in this book, let it be this: Jesus has no disciples without conviction; He demands everything. When you save someone, it changes everything. The inevitable question is this: how?

Are you born like you and me? Sinner with his fist clenched in rebellion against God; this fist then grew into a gigantic fist that said, “I hate Jesus so much that I will persecute his disciples. “As Jesus’ immeasurable enemy, Paul wanted to take down his disciples. He wanted the Christians killed and worked for it. All the time. Until Jesus found him and said, “Paul, are you mine?(At 9 a. m. ). Like a switch that suddenly lights up, the one who hated Jesus became a disciple of him.

His life, his dreams, his ideologies, his passions, his motivations and his work have turned around, have been irreversibly transformed. He used to be a persecutor of Christians; now his greatest defender. He abandoned his old life and continued to follow Jesus into a new and much happier life, full of global missions and an ecclesial environment, preaching about Jesus to anyone who would like to hear him.

The Spirit of God also inspired him to write 13 Books of the New Testament. In one of them, the letter to the church in the ancient city of Philips, did Paul define what a disciple of Jesus is?A Christian. The definition is long, but complete. Read.

Yes, I consider everything a loss, by the sublime knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord; for which I have lost everything and consider them a refusal, to win Christ and to be found in him, without having justice of his own, which derives from the law, but which is by faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God. , based on faith; know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the communion of his sufferings, according to him in his death; to somehow achieve the resurrection of the dead (Fp 3. 8?11)

According to Paul, a Christian is someone who does six things: (1) he values Christ, (2) he devalues all other things, (3) he puts faith only in Christ, (4) he knows Christ, (5) he suffers for him, and (6) he becomes like him.

1. The values of Christ; 2. Devalue all other things; 3. Have faith in Christ only; 4. Know Christ; 5. Suffer for Him; 6. Become him.

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