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Counting the Cost = Understanding

Counting the Cost = Understanding.

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Counting the Cost = Understanding

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  1. Counting the Cost = Understanding • (Luke 14:26-32) "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. "And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it -- "lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, "saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' "Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? "Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. (NKJV)

  2. Common Misconceptions About Christianity

  3. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • People who are Christians “attend” church.

  4. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • Once you are a Christian, God will solve all of your problems.

  5. (James 1:2) My brethren, count it all joy whenyou fall into various trials, (NKJV) • (1 Peter 4:12-13) Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. (NKJV)

  6. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • Being a Christian means giving up all freedom and fun and living by a list of rules of “thall shall nots”.

  7. (Romans 14:16-18) • Then you will not be condemned for doing something you know is all right. For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God. And other people will approve of you, too. (NLT)

  8. The way God Wants to be Followed • (Ephesians 6:6) not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, (NKJV)

  9. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • Being baptized makes you a Christian.

  10. Though With Us Now, Some May Not Actually Be Christians • (1 John 2:19) • They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. (NKJV)

  11. Are You STILLTruly a Christian? • (2 Corinthians 13:5) Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? --unless indeed you are disqualified. (NKJV)

  12. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • Christians are loving, perfect people.

  13. Even Christians Make Mistakes • (Colossians 3:13) • bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. (NKJV)

  14. Even Paul Acknowledged His Shortcomings • (Philippians 3:12-13) • Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, (NKJV)

  15. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • A Christian should not associate with unbelievers.

  16. (Matthew 9:10) • Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. (NKJV)

  17. Building Relationships: How We Convert the Lost • (1 Corinthians 9:22-23) • to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you. (NKJV)

  18. Common Misconceptions About Christianity • A faithful child of God will never struggle with their faith. They will always feel close to God.

  19. David, a Man After God’s Own Heart Felt Alone At Times • (Psalms 22:1) • …My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? (NKJV)

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