Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?
    What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?
    What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?
    Ebook34 pages34 minutes

    What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

    By David Platt

    4.5/5

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    You may think you are a Christian—but are you sure? Jesus’ call to follow him is more than an invitation to pray a prayer. It is a summons to lose your life and find new life and ultimate joy in him. In David Platt’s book Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live he asks the question, “What did Jesus really mean when he said, ‘Follow me’?” What if we really listened to Jesus’ words and heard what he is saying? When people truly engage with Jesus’ personal invitation to follow him, everything changes, for he is worthy of all our trust and affections.

    What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? builds on the message of Follow Me to motivate readers to experience our grand purpose: to exalt the glory of God by spreading Christ’s gospel—to make disciples who are making disciples. This booklet is a great resource to share with others to discuss crucial faith questions in a personal and grace-filled manner and engage others to be disciple-makers in obedience to Jesus. Ideal for small groups or personal and mass evangelism.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateOct 25, 2013
    ISBN9781414396316

    Read more from David Platt

    Related to What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      How Should We Respond To Celebrities Coming To Christ?

      Dec 30, 2019

      If you’ve been following the news lately, you will have noticed a significant wave of celebrities who are turning to Christ. In what is referred to as a massive spiritual movement, the sinful city of Hollywood is turning more and more stars away from

      5 min read

    • Article

      WHAT EXACTLY IS A believer?

      Oct 30, 2020

      WHAT EXACTLY IS A believer?
      3 min read

    • Article

      Young Evangelists Are Answering The Call

      Jul 22, 2022

      Many years ago, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke spoke of a vision that the Lord had given him of young people preaching the Gospel on the streets of Europe. That vision has taken another step forward with the introduction of Fire Camps – retreats for youn

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Dec 29, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      7 min read

    • Article

      The River Of Life

      Mar 8, 2024

      I love standing on a bridge, staring into the fast-moving waters of a river, on their way to the sea from their source in distant hills. The length of a river is like the span of a human life. Some lives are long, but others, sadly, can be much short

      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Mar 8, 2024

      Send your letters to editor@joymag.co.za Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jul 21, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      6 min read

    • Article

      Radiance

      Dec 30, 2022

      Radiance
      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jun 24, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Jun 12, 2020

      This lockdown has really shaken a lot of people and caused them to stop relying on themselves and the things of this world. Jesus is our only hope and I am so grateful that I know Him as my Lord and Saviour and best friend and protector. I have peace

      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘Socially Acceptable’ Sins

      Apr 22, 2022

      In the church today, there are many sins that are seen as ‘socially acceptable’. Are we changing the Bible to fit our culture, or are we changing our culture to fit the Bible? While the sin of worry, for example, may not seem as severe as murder, it

      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Feb 9, 2024

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      11 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Oct 2, 2020

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Getting to Know God GOD IS LOVE

      Oct 28, 2022

      Twenty years ago the blockbuster movie Bruce Almighty was released. In it, God gives the protagonist – Bruce Nolan – God-like abilities for one week. The result is chaos as Bruce uses those powers largely for inept and selfish ends. The movie asks, ‘

      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Aug 26, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Apr 22, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to editor@joymag.co.za for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Aug 7, 2020

      Greetings in the Holy Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. In your July issue of JOY! you asked what we are grateful for. I’m grateful for the fact that Jesus Christ saved me and my family. My third born son suffered severe burns on his body, and my last b

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Invisible War

      Feb 10, 2020

      The Invisible War
      3 min read

    • Article

      Forward March!

      Sep 4, 2020

      Forward March!
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?

    4.5/5

    15 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Short book but packed with helpful scriptures for those drawing near Christ.

    Book preview

    What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? - David Platt

    Introduction

    W

    HEN

    J

    ESUS WALKED

    along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he called to four fishermen, Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Peter, Andrew, James, and John dropped their nets and followed him. Their lives—and indeed, the whole world—were never the same.

    But Jesus’ call to follow him was not for them alone. His call has also come to each of us: Will you follow him?

    This call to follow Jesus is not one we can easily ignore. It can be tempting in the midst of our busy lives to set it aside, to shrug off the claims that Jesus made, and to go about with business as usual. It can be equally tempting to look at what we see as the failures of those who have claimed Jesus’ name or at our past experiences and assume that we’ve already evaluated all there is to know about Jesus. Been there, done that.

    But the nature of Jesus’ claims and his invitation to follow him demand our full attention. Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to [God] the Father except through me. Peter, one of the four fishermen Jesus called, later said of Jesus, Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. Jesus did not claim to be one dish on the buffet line of spirituality from which we can pick and choose the elements that best suit our taste. And if his claims are true, then his call demands everything, and we have no other choice—like those fishermen before us—but to drop everything and follow him.

    In this booklet, I aim to set before you what it means to follow Jesus. What is his call? What does it cost? And what does a life of following Jesus entail? These questions deserve careful consideration.

    Ultimately the call to follow Jesus is a call to die—to die to ourselves and to die to the things of this world. But at the same time, it is a call to live—to experience unbridled joy as

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1