Jesus calls us to do many things In Luke 14:26 he says that we must hate our brothers and sisters in order to be his disciple. What does this look like?
When Jesus taught in Luke 14:26 and said that we must hate our brother and sisters in order to be his disciple surely he did not mean that we need to actually hate them and have nothing to do with them.
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I am not sure about you. I have two brothers and a sister and I love all them all. I have an older brother that I love very much and whom I speak to one the phone more than once a week. To lose that brother in order to follow Jesus better would be hard, though if asked to do so by Jesus I would do so.
So what does hating your brother and sister really mean?
Let us just say that you are a Muslim and you decide to follow Jesus. Suppose you go home and tell your parents and they reject you and tell you to go and speak to your brothers and sisters about your new faith. Imagine your older brother is a zealous Muslim and when you tell your brother he says you need to leave you new faith or he will kill you. At this stage to be the disciple of Jesus Christ, you need to flee from your home town and go and live a life for Jesus.
Let us say that God has put a calling on your life to go and preach in Africa. Let us say you are like me and you have a wonderful and close relationship with your brother. Let us say you tell him and he says that there are no phones in Africa and there is no way that you both can stay in touch and that he does not agree that God has got a calling in your life to serve Jesus in Africa.
Jesus says that if you are going to be His true disciple and follow Him and with good spiritual counsel from Godly people you are assured that Jesus is really calling you to Africa, you must leave your brother behind and move to Africa.
Jesus assured us that nothing short of that is following Him or being His disciple.
You need not hate your brother or sister or your mother or father, and yet sometimes Jesus will call you to make decisions in your Christian life that might make your loved ones think that you do not love them. We need to do what Jesus tells us to do and no person must be in our way.
The Crucified Life - Hating Our Brothers and Sisters MISSIONS TRIPS AFRICA
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