Arun introduced me to this amazing book The Vision and The Vow  (The Vision and The Vow)

If you haven't read The Vision yet, read it here: the vision

and you can watch a video presentation here: vision media

I got pretty psyched about it so I have started reading the book (yes I read lots of books at the same time!). Here's some of the stuff it talks about.

Jesus invites us to:

Trust him as a Saviour

Know him as a Friend

Obey him as Lord

Jesus gave the disciples a simple invitation "Come follow me", and they did so without question. Not knowing where they were going, or much about Jesus at all, the disciples gave up their jobs, their family...all their comfort and security. Jesus didn't promise them an easy life. This readiness to give up everything is hard to get your head around, especially in the culture we live in where the aim is to get as much as you can, not lose it. We know a lot more about Jesus than they did, but still we cling to things that make us comfortable. When will we be prepared to give Jesus our everything? 

Even now this Galilean calls us by name to leave our nets, abandon small dreams of token empires, and follow him into the great unknown. His vision for our lives is a treasure worth everything we own - worth living for and dying for.