Do We Really Want to be a Christian?

"Finally, It's My Time"

Have you ever been super excited to do something that you thought would be great?

I know I have.

One of my most looked forward to experiences in life was when my Dad would give me the opportunity to cut the grass. Ever since I was in the single digits, I have watched my Dad cut the grass and asked him when I could do it. He would say I wasn't old enough, but my day came when I was thirteen.

It was wonderful!

Maybe even better than I imagined, and the next week was just as good. However, as the weeks went on, something happened. I was slowly losing my enthusiasm for mowing the lawn each week. So much so that by the time I was 14, I was petitioning my Dad to let my sister start cutting the grass even though she was only 11 (they say females mature faster than guys by three years, so she really was 14).

So what happened to have this dramatic shift from pure joy to dislike in less than a year?

Well, that is what we are going to talk about: how this grass-cutting adventure mirrors what we will be studying from Jesus today. Because "Did I Really Want to Mow the Lawn?", is similar to "Do We REALLY Want to be a Christian?"