We are in a series on Radical Discipleship and last week, Michael summarized the previous 11 weeks to help us integrate all of these into our entire lives as we follow Christ. We have two more weeks in this series: the root of this discipleship Luke 9:23. Radical means the essence or extreme nature of following Jesus. Last week’s summary leads us into the conversation for this week which also encompasses everything: Radical Love. Love is everywhere. It’s in our music, TV, crime shows, the reality shows that try to make people get together and love each other, our politics, and our conversations. For example: Titanic is considered the greatest love movie of the 1990s…but this further exemplifies that we don’t know much about love. Titanic was about an old woman who has a memory of how she was engaged to be married 80 years earlier but she meets someone on a boat and has an affair and cheats on her fiancé and then he dies and this is what she remembers 80 years later. It’s really a terrible movie. Let’s move on
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