Practicing The Way Week 1 | Luke 5:1-11 | Nathan Hughes

Title: Practicing the Way
Main Text: Luke 5:1-11

Key Points:

The Discipleship Crisis

Many profess faith but do not practice the way of Jesus.

Salvation is not just being saved from something—it's being saved to something: life with Jesus.

The Call to Follow

In Jesus’ day, being a rabbi’s disciple was the highest honor—but Jesus didn’t choose the elite.

He called the backups—the ordinary, the overlooked—and said, "You’re exactly who I want."

Jesus initiates the call, not the other way around.

Simon Peter’s Encounter with Jesus

Despite logic and experience, Peter obeys Jesus’ command to fish again—“because you say so.”

Encountering Jesus confronts us with our sin, our smallness—and invites total surrender.

The Cost and the Invitation

Peter, James, and John left everything to follow Jesus.

Following Jesus costs something, but the invitation is open to whoever is willing.

The Kingdom of God is not for the qualified—it’s for the willing.

Be With Jesus. Become Like Jesus. Do As Jesus Did.

Discipleship isn’t passive; it’s a relationship, a transformation, and a mission.

Acts 4:13 reminds us that the world notices when ordinary people have been with Jesus.

Final Challenge:
Are you simply professing Jesus? Or are you truly practicing the way of Jesus?