HERE IS WHAT I KNOW

He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”  (John 9:25 NKJV)

You don’t have to be weird to follow Jesus. You don’t have to stop liking your friends to follow Him. Just the opposite. A few introductions would be nice. Do you know how to grill a steak?... Discipleship is sometimes defined by being normal.

A woman in a small Arkansas community was a single mom with a frail baby. Her neighbor would stop by every day and keep the child so she could shop. After some weeks her neighbor shared more than time; she shared her faith in Jesus, and the single mom did what Matthew did. She followed Christ.

The friends of the young mother objected. “Do you know what these people teach?” they contested. “Here is what I know,” she told them. “They held my baby.”

I think Jesus likes that kind of answer, don’t you? 

-- Max Lucado in “Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God” 

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