Do you want to follow Jesus? Do you want to find out what that means? Are you new to following Jesus and not sure what to do now? If so, read this series of pages which are meant for you. They are mainly for anyone who is interested in following Jesus or has just started to do so. They may also be useful to you if you have called yourself a Christian for a long time but want to learn more about what it really means to follow Jesus.
Contents of this series:
- Why should I follow Jesus?
- Do I need to change my religion to follow Jesus?
- How can I become a follower of Jesus?
- I have started to follow Jesus. What next?
- How can I know the power of God in my life?
- What is the handbook for Jesus followers?
- What about all those other Jesus followers?
- How can I meet with other Jesus followers?
- To follow Jesus, do I need to be baptised?
- (more to follow)
If you’re not sure where to go now, start at the beginning. Items with no link are projected or in preparation.
Special comment policy for this series: These pages are primarily for beginners. I am allowing comments here so that these beginners can ask questions for clarification. This is not the place for discussion of controversial issues. If you, as a mature follower of Jesus or as a confirmed opponent, think something I have written here is not correct, then please let me know through the contact form, and I will try to address the issue.
JESUS IS the love the light the hope for the world
To me it seems like alot of crap to go through to SHOW your LOVE for the MASTER
It is so simple but yet so hard to small the coffie
I love GOD end of story
the truth shell set you FREE
Charles, thank you for your comments. It isn’t really “a lot of crap to go through”. It is actually very simple to give your life to Jesus Christ. If anyone tells you differently, that you must do all these things first, then don’t believe them. Just tell Jesus you want to follow him. There is a little bit more to it which I explained under How can I become a follower of Jesus? But there really is nothing difficult there.
Of course when you start following Jesus he might ask you to do some difficult things. That’s a different matter. But he promises that he will be with you and give you the power you need to do them.
Sorry I haven’t made any progress on the rest of this series in the last month or so.
I am interested to know how you view Jesus. There are many passages in the books that can be taken to mean he is not his own father, never created a thing, and one in particular where he is sitting with his followers, telling them, “nobody has seen the father”, as they gazed upon Jesus.
The second to the last words attributed to Jesus, red letter edition type of words in Revelations states he is “the off spring of David, and the bright and morning star”. Was not the “sinful one” cast out of his fathers house? Did not Jesus take all sins upon himself? Only one was full of sin, by taking them from everyone else, that seems like a fitting description of Jesus.
Meatwad, you have interesting questions. I see Jesus as the Son of God the Father, but not to be identified with the Father. On the cross he took on the sins of the whole world, in some sense, and died as the punishment for those sins. But he was raised from the dead and is still alive, no longer forsaken by the Father. But this is not the place to go into detail.