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Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Causality for Following Jesus

Why do Christians follow Jesus Christ? Following someone means your their disciple. A disciple lives in such a way that mimics their mentors teachings, lifestyle, and example to others. Christians, however, have a mentor named Jesus Christ, who lived a law-fulfilling, humbled life and died a substitutionary death for their sins. Therefore, an exemplary sacrifice delivers a cognitive appropriateness for conversion, and provokes a pursue to follow after the One who died for them. Jesus died for our sins, so we can die to our sins in order to be more like him. The best definition of why Christians follow Jesus is because of his love for them. He loved them and willingly died for them in order to redeem their souls from everlasting separation, wrath, and judgment. The Apostle John summed it all up perfectly in his first epistle when he said, "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. We love him because he first loved us."

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