“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me… yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.” -John 5:39–40 NLT

• Relational Devotion (Communicated Through Loving Obedience)

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” -John 14:15 NLT

• Supreme Devotion (Communicated Through Allegiance to Jesus)

“If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life.” -Luke 14:26 NLT

“So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.” -Luke 14:33 NLT

• Exclusive Devotion (Communicated Through Complete Loyalty)

“No one can serve two masters.” -Matthew 6:24 NLT

“And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.” Colossians 3:17 NLT

“One of the teachers of religious law said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.’ But Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place even to lay his head.” Another of his disciples said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Follow me now. Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead.” -Matthew 8:18-22 NLT