Mile Markers: Reflecting on the Journey - As He Is [Ryan Ashley]

Mark 1:16-20

Matthew 9:9-13

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 

“Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.”

Scot McKnight – The Jesus Creed

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Upward

Inward

Backward

Forward 

Withward

Outward 

“Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It’s that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.”

Scot McKnight – The Jesus Creed

Downward

“Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.”

Scot McKnight – The Jesus Creed