The Cost

²⁸ “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? ²⁹ For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, ³⁰ saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Luke 14:28-30

What is the cost of being a disciple of Christ? I have met many people who have come to a relationship with Christ and through crazy events have not counted the cost of being a disciple. They came to Christ on a feeling or a whim and yet did not realize the severity of the commitment it takes to follow God. To follow God, we must deny and run away from the things and re-prioritize our lives so that God is in everything. Like it says in Colossians, "Christ is in all and through him all things hold together."

In the following weeks I want to paint you an image of an excel spreadsheet. On this sheet is a cost list and on this cost list is the price of being a disciple. What I have found is that many people have committed something to Christ buy havent looked seriously at the commitment or the cost that it takes to be a follower of Christ. My hope is that you will be encouraged to new heights to follow Christ and live in his joy and his peace.