Are You Moving Away From Jesus?

Jesus deliberately picks two people who couldn't be more opposite ends of the spectrum and he calls them both to follow him. Jesus is making a very powerful statement here about what it means to belong to his family. If this is clean and nice, right? It's liability is that it kind of tends toward legalism and we add on things that aren't really part of the core identity. This has a crystal clear center. Are you moving towards Jesus or are you moving away from Jesus? But the result of a centered set is social messiness,social messiness, which is exactly what happens.